28Which 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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If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; …
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.
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-29)Solomon had hitherto been proving the vanity of the world and its utter insufficiency to make men happy; now here he comes to show the vileness of sin, and its certain tendency to make men miserable; and this, as the former, he proves from his own experience, and it was a dear-bought experience. He is here, more than any where in all this book, putting on the habit of a penitent. He reviews what h…
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