Ecclesiastes 7:28

WEB

²⁸which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.

KJV

²⁸Which 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.

BSB

²⁸While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.

FBV

²⁸Although I really searched, I didn't find what I was looking for. People say, “I found one man among a thousand, but not one woman.”

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Extra References

Psalms 12:1

¹Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Job 33:23

²³“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him,

¹Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites, ²of the nations concerning which the LORD said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love. ³He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.

Isaiah 26:9

⁹With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Ecclesiastes 7:23-24

²³All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me. ²⁴That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?