Pengkhotbah 7:27

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lihatlah, ini yang kudapati, kata Pengkhotbah: Sementara menyatukan yang satu dengan yang lain untuk mendapat kesimpulan,

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Lihatlah, ini yang kudapati, kata Pengkhotbah: Sementara menyatukan yang satu dengan yang lain untuk mendapat kesimpulan,

Contextual Overview

²³ All these thinges haue I proued in wysdome, for I thought to be wyse, but she went farther fro me then she was before: ²⁴ yea and so deepe, that I might not reache vnto her. ²⁵ I applied my minde also vnto knowledge, and to seeke and searche out science, wysdome, and vnderstanding, to knowe the foolishnesse of the vngodly, and the errour of doting fooles. ²⁶ And I founde that a woman is bitterer then death, the whiche hath cast abrode her heart as a net that men fishe with, and her handes are chaynes: Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner wyll be taken with her. ²⁷ Beholde (saith the preacher) this haue I diligently searched out and proued: One thing must be considered with another, that a man may come by knowledge, which as yet I seeke, and finde it not. ²⁸ Among a thousande men I haue founde one: but not one woman among all. ²⁹ Lo this onlye haue I founde, that God made man iust and right: but they sought many inuentions.

Bible Verse Review
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saith: Ecclesiastes 1:1, Ecclesiastes 1:2, Ecclesiastes 12:8-10

counting one by one, to find out the account: or, weighing one thing after another, to find out the reason, Ecclesiastes 7:25

Reciprocal: 1 Timothy 2:7 - a preacher

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, this have I found,.... That a harlot is more bitter than death; and which he found by his own experience, and therefore would have it observed by others for their caution: or one man among a thousand, Ecclesiastes 7:28;

(saith the preacher); of which title and character see Ecclesiastes 1:1; it is here mentioned to confirm the truth of what he said; he said it as a preacher, and, upon the word of a preacher, it was true; as also to signify his repentance for his sin, who was now the "gathered soul", as some render it; gathered into the church of God by repentance;

[counting] one by one, to find out the account; not his own sins, which he endeavoured to reckon up, and find out the general account of them, which yet he could not do; nor the good works of the righteous, and the sins of the wicked, which are numbered before the Lord one by one, till they are added to the great account; as Jarchi, from the Rabbins, interprets it, and so the Midrash: but rather the sense is, examining women, one by one, all within the verge of his acquaintance; particularly the thousand women that were either his wives or concubines; in order to take and give a just estimate of their character and actions. What follows is the result.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 27. Counting one by one — I have gone over every particular. I have compared one thing with another; man with woman, his wisdom with her wiles; his strength with her blandishments; his influence with her ascendancy; his powers of reason with her arts and cunning; and in a thousand men, I have found one thoroughly upright man; but among one thousand women I have not found one such. This is a lamentable account of the state of morals in Judea, in the days of the wise King Solomon. Thank God! it would not be difficult to get a tithe of both in the same number in the present day.

The Targum gives this a curious turn: - "There is another thing which my soul has sought, but could not find: a man perfect and innocent, and without corruption, from the days of Adam until Abraham the just was born; who was found faithful and upright among the thousand kings who came together to construct the tower of Babel: but a woman like to Sarah among the wives of all those kings I have not found."