Ecclesiastes 7:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Behold; it is a strange thing, and worthy of your serious observation. The preacher; or, the penitent, who speaks what he hath learned, both by deep, study and costly experience. Counting one by one; considering things or persons very exactly and distinctly, one after another; and not only in general and confusedly, in which case a man may very easily be mistaken; and comparing them together, whereby I was enabled to make the truer judgment of them. To find out the account, that I might make a true and just estimate in this matter. Or, as it is in the margin:, and was rendered Ecclesiastes 7:25, the reason, to wit, of that which I am about to say. I considered the persons severally and critically, that from thence I might understand the reason of the thing.