Verse 28
28. Which yet my soul seeketh, etc. That is, The investigation is not yet concluded, so that the result may yet be altered.
One… a thousand A very beggarly proportion, to say the least, of pure, true, and good men!
It is not strange that where men are so bad, and the best of them thought so ill of women, they were no better. What was to make them better? If, as some have thought, the thousand women reviewed were the three hundred wives and seven hundred concubines of the Solomonic harem, no wonder if the poor things were no better! Mohammed said, that only four good women had ever lived: the wife of Pharaoh, the mother of Jesus, and his own wife and daughter. Koheleth would get better figures today, both absolutely and proportionally.
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