Verse 28

While I was still searching but not finding, I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 33:23 : 23 But if there is a messenger for them, a mediator, one among a thousand, to declare to them what is right,
  • Ps 12:1 : 1 For the director of music. According to the eighth. A psalm of David.
  • Eccl 7:23-24 : 23 All this I tested by wisdom and said, 'I will be wise,' but it was beyond me. 24 What exists is far off and exceedingly deep—who can discover it?
  • Isa 26:9 : 9 My soul yearns for You in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks You. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1-3 : 1 King Solomon loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter—Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women. 2 These were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, 'You must not intermarry with them, and they must not intermarry with you, for they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.' Nevertheless, Solomon clung to them in love. 3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.