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1 | man? Woman? | Eccl 7:28 | Aixen7z4 | 153738 | ||
In context, it makes sense. The person who divided the book into chapters and verses did a good thing in helping us to locate passages. But we should not be focused on verses as if each one held a separate thought. Read the entire passage to get the context and the meaning. Read the following, for example, in the paragraph arrangement of the New Living Translation. Solomon says: “I have tried my best to let wisdom guide my thoughts and actions. I said to myself, ‘I am determined to be wise.’ But it didn't really work. Wisdom is always distant and very difficult to find. I searched everywhere, determined to find wisdom and to understand the reason for things. I was determined to prove to myself that wickedness is stupid and that foolishness is madness. “I discovered that a seductive woman is more bitter than death. Her passion is a trap, and her soft hands will bind you. Those who please God will escape from her, but sinners will be caught in her snare. "This is my conclusion," says the Teacher. "I came to this result after looking into the matter from every possible angle. Just one out of every thousand men I interviewed can be said to be upright, but not one woman! I discovered that God created people to be upright, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path." Solomon was a king, a wise king, and had talked to many people. His conclusion was that very few men were honest, and even fewer women. The passage indicates that some women are seductive, and that serves to lessen the incidence of honesty among them. Does that not make it simple? It is profound, perhaps disturbing, but simple. Why a thousand? And why the reference to his harem? Think about it. Solomon had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart (1 Kings 11). |
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2 | man? Woman? | Eccl 7:28 | seedling | 153766 | ||
Thanks Aixen7z4 The New Living translation makes it more clear. That makes sense that he found less women since some of them turned his heart away from God. Seedling |
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