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 1 Kings 11:3 was a thousand.
PART II. CHAPTER S 7-12 1. The Good Advice of the Natural Man, Discouragement and Failure CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The better things (Ecclesiastes 7:1)_ 2. The anomalies (Ecclesiastes 7:15) 3. The strength...
IN DISPRAISE OF WOMEN. All the foregoing maxims have been tested, yet Qoheleth has not attained wisdom (Ecclesiastes 7:23); the true inwardness of things, the ultimate reality, is beyond his efforts ...
PROVERBS AND REFLECTIONS. After asking, What is good for man in life? (Ecclesiastes 6:12), Qoheleth gives us advice as to what a man may do by way of mitigating his worries. First of all it is advisab...
MY SOUL. I myself. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. SEEKETH. sought....
_one man among a thousand have I found_ We have, in the absence of an adjective, to supply the thought "a man such as he ought to be, truthful and righteous." The form in which the rare exceptional di...
BEHOLD, THIS HAVE I FOUND, &C.— _Behold, this have I found_ (_saith the orator_), _examining them one by one, to find out the reason of it:_ Ecclesiastes 7:28. _Which my soul seeketh still, without be...
2. Through intensive study, one comes to see the potential within men and women to do evil. Ecclesiastes 7:25-28 TEXT 7:25-28 25 I directed my mind to know, to investigate, and to seek wisdom and a...
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. MY SOUL SEEKETH - rather, referring to his past experience, 'Which m...
PRACTICAL APHORISMS 1-6. Things useful to remember in life. The writer has just warned as that we cannot rely on either the present or the future. We can, however, guide ourselves in the conduct of l...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 7 The Teacher does not continue to ask questions. Instead, he uses many special sent...
ONE MAN AMONG A THOUSAND. — See Job 9:3; Job 33:23. The disparaging estimate of the female sex here expressed is common in countries where polygamy is practised. (See Sir. 25:24; Sir. 42:13.) It is cr...
אֲשֶׁ֛ר עֹוד ־בִּקְשָׁ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֖י וְ לֹ֣א מָ
THIRD SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wealth, And In The Golden Mean Ecclesiastes 6:1; Ecclesiastes 7:1, and Ecclesiastes 8:1 IN the foregoing Section Coheleth has shown that the C
The preacher now proceeded to the inculcation of indifference toward all the facts of life as the only attitude which is in the least likely to be satisfactory. This he did, first, by a series of maxi...
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee: (22) For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others. (23) All this h...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 12. The Book of Ecclesiastes is, up to a certain point, the converse of the Book of Proverbs. (see NOTE TO PROVERBS below) It is the experience of a...
WHICH YET MY SOUL SEEKETH, BUT I FIND NOT,.... He was very earnest and diligent in his inquiry; he took a great deal of pains, and was exceedingly solicitous; he sought with great intenseness of mind,...
_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._ Ver. 28. _Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not._] There is a pla...
_Behold, saith the preacher_ Or, _the penitent_, who speaks what he hath learned, both by deep study and costly experience; _this have I found_ And it is a strange thing, and worthy of your serious ob...
A SPIRIT OF SORROW OVER SIN AND ITS ALLUREMENTS...
which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found, namely, one realizing the futility of human wisdom; BUT A WOMAN AMONG ALL THOSE HAVE I NOT FOUND, since moral weakness...
"WHICH. AM STILL SEEKING BUT HAVE NOT FOUND.. HAVE FOUND ONE MAN AMONG. THOUSAND, BUT. HAVE NOT FOUND. WOMAN AMONG ALL THESE." Points To Note: 1 Since Solomon only found one righteous or wise man amo...
23-29 Solomon, in his search into the nature and reason of things, had been miserably deluded. But he here speaks with godly sorrow. He alone who constantly aims to please God, can expect to escape;...
MY SOUL SEEKETH; it seemed so wonderful to me, that I suspected I had not made a sufficient inquiry, and therefore I returned to search again with more earnestness and accurateness. I FIND NOT; that i...
Ecclesiastes 7:28 soul H5315 seeks H1245 (H8765) find H4672 (H8804) One H259 man H120 thousand H505 found...
HIS SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING RESULTING FROM HIS WISDOM HAS MADE HIM AWARE OF MAN'S SINFULNESS AND FOLLY (ECCLESIASTES 7:23). Ecclesiastes 7:23 ‘All this I have tested out in wisdom. I said, “I will b...
CHAPTER 7 IT IS GOOD TO BE AWARE OF DEATH, TO LISTEN TO REBUKE, TO BEHAVE WISELY, EVEN THOUGH LIFE IS UNFAIR. BUT THE WORLD IS FULL OF WICKEDNESS. The emphasis of the book from now on includes the tho...
Ecclesiastes 7:19-8 Koheleth seems to have had a suspicion all the time that his view of life was a low one. He intimates that he had tried for a better, but failed to reach it: "I said, I will be wis...
Ecclesiastes 7 and ECCLESIASTES 8:1 I. The endeavour to secure a competence may be not lawful only, but most laudable, since God means us to make the best of the capacities He has given us and the opp...
CONTENTS: Prudence recommended as a means of avoiding much of the vanity and vexation of the world. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: The best way to save ourselves from the vexation which the v...
Ecclesiastes 7:1. _A good name is better than precious ointment._ Shem, a name; shemen, ointment. The reference is to the embalming of bodies with ointment. See Genesis 48. Wisdom and virtue outlive t...
_A woman among all those have I not found._ SOLOMON’S ESTIMATE OF WOMAN This sentence of Solomon has been often quoted to show the utter worthlessness of the female character. It is, however, an enti...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 7:25 The Heart of the Problem: Sin. The Preacher has made numerous references to human sinfulness. This short section helps to explain how this sorry condition came a...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 7:28 ONE MAN... I FOUND, BUT A WOMAN... I HAVE NOT FOUND. The Preacher is unable to “figure out” human beings. His one firm conclusion is that God made man upright, b...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 7:27. COUNTING ONE BY ONE, TO FIND OUT THE ACCOUNT] Collecting the results of many observations—thus forming an opinion carefully and slowly. ECCLESIASTES 7:29. MANY INV...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 7:1 Ecclesiastes 12:8.—Division II. DEDUCTIONS FROM THE ABOVE-MENTIONED EXPERIENCES IN THE
Tonight we want to return again to the book of Ecclesiastes beginning with chapter 7. And as we return to the book of Ecclesiastes, again, it is important that we make note of the fact that the book o...
1 Kings 11:1; Ecclesiastes 7:23; Ecclesiastes 7:24; Isaiah 26:9;...
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 — O...