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Selected Verse: Ecclesiates 7:28 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ec 7:28 |
King James |
Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Rather, referring to his past experience, "Which my soul sought further, but I found not."
one man--that is, worthy of the name, "man," "upright"; not more than one in a thousand of my courtiers (Job 33:23; Psa 12:1). Jesus Christ alone of men fully realizes the perfect ideal of "man." "Chiefest among ten thousand" (Sol 5:10). No perfect "woman" has ever existed, not even the Virgin Mary. Solomon, in the word "thousand," alludes to his three hundred wives and seven hundred concubines. Among these it was not likely that he should find the fidelity which one true wife pays to one husband. Connected with Ecc 7:26, not an unqualified condemnation of the sex, as Pro 12:4; Pro 31:10, &c., prove. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
One man - One whose good qualities quite satisfy our expectation. Compare the expression "one among a thousand" (marginal reference).
A woman - The number of Solomon's wives and concubines Kg1 11:3 was a thousand. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Yet seeketh - I returned to search again with more earnestness. I find not - That it was so, he found, but the reason of the thing he could not find out. One man - A wise and virtuous man. A woman - One worthy of that name; one who is not a dishonour to her sex. Among - In that thousand whom I have taken into intimate society with myself. |
10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
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 her.
10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
1 To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.