26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Verse 26 shows a repeated theme from Proverbs on the adulterous woman and it shows that those in the Lord will escape from such situations which reminds us of 1 Corinthians 10:13. Obviously his experience with insane numbers of wives and concubines which God warned him would lead him astray lends to the attitude in the verses 27 and 28.
The last verse shows that original sin still cannot excuse man's deliberate attempts to sow discord and find ways to disobey God.
We could surmise this is a reference to the original creation of man; but since the word "they" is used it seems to extend to mankind afterwards in all history.
Ecclesiastes 8
The first 5 verses focus on the merits of foilowing the king properly.
Verse 8 states the first important theme in this chapter: There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
This passage shows how the spirit leaves the body at death and we can't hold it back. For the wicked they are forever weak in hell as Isaiah 14:10 states of the inhabitants there when the Antichrist is thrown down there.
Verse 11 says: Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Verse 12 shows how 2 millennia would be nothing compared to eternity without God.
26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Verse 26 shows a repeated theme from Proverbs on the adulterous woman and it shows that those in the Lord will escape from such situations which reminds us of 1 Corinthians 10:13. Obviously his experience with insane numbers of wives and concubines which God warned him would lead him astray lends to the attitude in the verses 27 and 28.
The last verse shows that original sin still cannot excuse man's deliberate attempts to sow discord and find ways to disobey God.
We could surmise this is a reference to the original creation of man; but since the word "they" is used it seems to extend to mankind afterwards in all history.
Ecclesiastes 8
The first 5 verses focus on the merits of foilowing the king properly.
Verse 8 states the first important theme in this chapter: There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
This passage shows how the spirit leaves the body at death and we can't hold it back. For the wicked they are forever weak in hell as Isaiah 14:10 states of the inhabitants there when the Antichrist is thrown down there.
Verse 11 says: Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Verse 12 shows how 2 millennia would be nothing compared to eternity without God.
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