{"id":9605,"date":"2026-03-20T05:43:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=9605"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:11:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:11:31","slug":"ecclesiastes-723-29-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=9605","title":{"rendered":"Ecclesiastes 7:23-29"},"content":{"rendered":"

23 <\/sup>All this I have proved by wisdom. I said, \u201cI will be wise\u201d; but it was\u00a0far from me.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

24\u00a0<\/sup>As for that which is far off and exceedingly deep, w<\/span>ho can find it out?<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

25\u00a0<\/sup>I applied my heart to know, t<\/span>o search and seek out wisdom and the reason of things, t<\/span>o know the wickedness of folly, e<\/span>ven of foolishness and madness.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

26\u00a0<\/sup>And I find more bitter than death t<\/span>he woman whose heart is snares and nets, W<\/span>hose hands are fetters. <\/span>He who pleases God shall escape from her, b<\/span>ut the sinner shall be trapped by her.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n
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27\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cHere is what I have found,\u201d says the Preacher, <\/span>\u201cadding one thing to the other to find out the reason,<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

28\u00a0<\/sup>Which my soul still seeks but I cannot find: o<\/span>ne man among a thousand I have found, b<\/span>ut a woman among all these I have not found.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

29\u00a0<\/sup>Truly, this only I have found: t<\/span>hat God made man upright, b<\/span>ut they have sought out many schemes.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

far from me (v.23) \u2014 Solomon’s admission that he could not gain wisdom on his own.<\/h3>\n

far off and exceedingly deep (v.24) \u2014 the depths of wisdom can only be known through God’s revelation.<\/h3>\n

find (v.26) \u2014 by experience<\/h3>\n

“Whose heart is snares and nets” (v.26 refers to her evil intent to trap men in sin and “her hands are bands” refers to the methods she uses to entice hapless men into her trap. This verse echoes what Solomon said in Proverbs 2:16-19; 7:1-27 about the sinful woman who entices man into sin and ruin; the godly escape her but the fool is entrapped. \u2014 Grace, page 1176.<\/span><\/h3>\n

adding (v.27) = counting one by one, weighing one thing after another to find out the reason.<\/h3>\n

reason (v.27) \u2014 how all things fit together<\/h3>\n

one man (v.28) \u2014 who is wise and upright<\/h3>\n

a woman (v.28) \u2014 Solomon, instead of seeking one rational, virtuous woman, had collected an immense multitude, of various countries and religions, for magnificence and indulgence; among whom, as might have been expected, he had not found one who was thoroughly faithful, upright, and pious. He here uses the language of a penitent, warning others of the errors into which he had been led; and not that of a waspish satirist, lashing indiscriminately one half of the human species, Treasury, page 426.<\/h3>\n

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Solomon had one thousand wives. Amongst them he failed to find one true woman. This resulted from his exercise of self-will. He chose idolatrous women, and they corrupted him. Had he sought Divine guidance in the matter, God would have given him one wife; and he would have had the experience that he who finds a God-given wife finds a good thing. \u2014 Williams, page 445.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The descendants of Adam have sought out an immense number of inventions, in order to find happiness in the world, without God, which have only proved so many variations of impiety and iniquity. \u2014 Treasury, page 426.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

23 All this I have proved by wisdom. I said, \u201cI will be wise\u201d; but it was\u00a0far from me. 24\u00a0As for that which is far off and exceedingly deep, who can find it out? 25\u00a0I applied my heart to know, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecclesiastes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9663,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions\/9663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}