Ecclesiastes 7:28 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

Ecclesiastes 7:28 —

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Job 33:23
If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
1 Kings 11:1-3
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; …
Psalms 12:1
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.
Isaiah 26:9
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.
Ecclesiastes 7:23-24
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. …

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 28)

28. 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” (So 5:10). No perfect “woman” has ever existed, not even the Virgin Mary. Solom…