- Bible
- Ecclesiastes
- Chapter 7
- Verse 27
Ecclesiastes 7:27
Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
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Commentary
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Behold, this have I found,.... That a harlot is more bitter than death; and which he found by his own experience, and therefore would have it observed by others for their caution: or one man among a…
Solomon had hitherto been proving the vanity of the world and its utter insufficiency to make men happy; now here he comes to show the vileness of sin, and its certain tendency to make men miserable;…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
saith the Preacher The passage is remarkable as being the solitary instance in the book in which the name Koheleth, feminine in form, yet elsewhere treated as masculine, is joined with the feminine…