Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 7:28

28 Which yet my soul seeketh y, but I find not : one man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found.

That it was so he found out, as he now said, v. 27. but the whole truth and the reason of the thing he could not find out.

One worthy of the Name of a Man, a wise and vertuous Man. Man is put for a worthy or good Man, as Name is put for a good Name above v. 1. and Wise for a good Wife, as was noted before.

With whom I have conversed. He is supposed to mention this Number in allusion to his Thousand Wives and Concubines, as they are numbred by parcels, 1 Kings 11. 3.

One worthy of that Name, one who is not a dishonour to her Kind and Sex, who is not brutish in her disposition and conversation.

In that Thousand whom I have taken into intimate society with my self. Whereby he also passeth a severe censure upon himself that he had associated himself with such Persons, and not with the vertuous Women, which doubtless there were in his time, as appears from Prov. 31. It is not Solomon's design to disparage this Sex, nor to make a general comparison between men and women in all Places, and Ages, but onely to suggest his own experience concerning it.

It seemed so wonderful to me that I suspected I had not made a sufficient enquiry, & therefore I returned to search again with more earnestness and accuratness.