Ecclesiastes 7:28

A thousand. Used commonly as a round number (see Ex. 20:6; 34:7; Ps. 105:8). Solomon here means to say that the perfect man is rare.

A woman. Solomon does not say there are no perfect women, but implies that he had found such women more rare than perfect men. His experiences with a thousand wives and concubines, many of them heathen and all of them no doubt jealous and quarrelsome — as is generally the case in such a household — had no doubt brought Solomon no end of trouble. These difficulties he seems to have blamed on the women rather than upon himself for entering into multiple marriages (see Gen. 3:12).