Ecclesiastes 7:28 meaning and explanation
While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.
Ecclesiastes 7:28, Berean Standard Bible
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The Teacher, the speaker of this wisdom book, is reporting his own frustrated search for wisdom and integrity. The number a thousand is a rhetorical figure for a large sample, not a census, and the saying reflects the ancient setting of a male writer observing his world.
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