Ecclesiastes 7:28

American Standard Version (1901)

which my soul still seeketh, but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 33:23 : 23 If there be with him an angel, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To show unto man what is right for him;
  • Ps 12:1 : 1 [For the Chief Musician; set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David]. Help, Jehovah; For the godly man ceaseth; For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
  • Eccl 7:23-24 : 23 All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. 24 That which is, is far off and exceeding deep; who can find it out?
  • Isa 26:9 : 9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee earnestly: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1-3 : 1 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; 2 of the nations concerning which Jehovah said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

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  • Eccl 7:23-27
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    23All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

    24That which is, is far off and exceeding deep; who can find it out?

    25I turned about, and my heart [was set] to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason [of things], and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

    26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. [

    27Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, [laying] one thing to another, to find out the account;

  • Eccl 7:29
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    29Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes), [

    17then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

  • Song 3:1-4
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    1By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

    2[ I said], I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

    3The watchmen that go about the city found me; [To whom I said], Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

    4It was but a little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me.

  • Prov 31:10
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    10A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

  • Eccl 1:13-17
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    13And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

    15That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

    16I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

    17And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

  • Job 17:10
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    10But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you.

  • Prov 18:22
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    22Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

  • Eccl 4:7-8
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    7Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

    8There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [saith he], do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

  • Prov 7:15
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    15Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

  • Prov 7:6-8
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    6For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;

    7And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,

    8Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,

  • Job 28:12-13
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    12But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

    13Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

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    35For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah.

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    36But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

  • Prov 2:4
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    4If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

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    6Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; But a faithful man who can find?

  • Eccl 9:9
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    9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

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    9My dove, my undefiled, is [but] one; She is the only one of her mother; She is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; [Yea], the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

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    15She is more precious than rubies: And none of the things thou canst desire are to be compared unto her.

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    3I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding [me] with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their life.

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    1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:

  • Eccl 2:11
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    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

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    3yea, better than them both [did I esteem] him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

  • Prov 30:19
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    19The way of an eagle in the air; The way of a serpent upon a rock; The way of a ship in the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maiden.

  • Song 5:6
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    6I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone. My soul had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

  • Eccl 7:15
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    15All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth [his life] in his evil-doing.

  • Eccl 7:20
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    20Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

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    28And when I look, there is no man: even among them there is no counsellor, that, when I ask of them, can answer a word.

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    27for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

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    30And I sought for a man among them, that should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.

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    20Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.

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    30Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; [But] a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

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