Ecclesiastes 7:20

20. Not a just man Be it remembered that the discussion here is of practical “wisdom,” not of abstract morality. The question of sin and holiness as before God, and in the domain of the sweet and salutary doctrines of the New Testament, is not here touched at all. We are simply told that prudence indicates that we are not to rely implicitly on, nor follow servilely, even the heroes of our land, for the most accurate man now or ever upon earth makes mistakes, and does sometimes wrong. The case of wilful transgression of the moral law is not at all before the mind of the writer, and our dear hopes and sweet experiences of walking before God and man “when sin is all destroyed,” need suffer no eclipse from this stated infirmity of judgment.