Ecclesiastes 7:28
what my soul still sought, yet I found not,—one man out of a thousand, have I found, but, a woman among all these, have I not found.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
27See! this, have I found, saith the Proclaimer [counting] one by one, to find a conclusion;
29Only, see, this, have I found, That God made man upright, but, they, have sought out many devices.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:1But, King Solomon, loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh,—women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites:
Psalms 12:1O save Yahweh, for the man of lovingkindness, is no more, for the faithful, have vanished, from among the sons of men.
Isaiah 26:9With my soul, longed I for thee in the night, Yea with my spirit within me, I kept on searching for thee,—For, when thy regulations [extend] to the earth, The inhabitants of the world will have learned, righteousness.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:24-29
The Evil of Sin. 23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. 24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? 25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by… Read the whole commentary →