Ecclesiastes 7:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 33:23 : 23 If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;
  • Ps 12:1 : 1 <For the chief music-maker on the Sheminith. A Psalm. Of David.> Send help, Lord, for mercy has come to an end; there is no more faith among the children of men.
  • Eccl 7:23-24 : 23 All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me. 24 Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?
  • Isa 26:9 : 9 In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1-3 : 1 Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites: 2 The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love. 3 He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 7:23-27
    5 verses
    88%

    23 All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

    24 Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?

    25 I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

    26 And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

    27 Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,

  • Eccl 7:29
    81%

    29 This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.

  • Eccl 8:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16 When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

    17 Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

  • Song 3:1-4
    4 verses
    72%

    1 By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.

    2 I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

    3 The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?

    4 I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.

  • Prov 31:10
    72%

    10 Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.

  • Eccl 1:13-17
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    71%

    13 And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

    14 I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.

    15 That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.

    16 I said to my heart, See, I have become great and am increased in wisdom more than any who were before me in Jerusalem--yes, my heart has seen much wisdom and knowledge.

    17 And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

  • Job 17:10
    70%

    10 But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.

  • Prov 18:22
    70%

    22 Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

  • Eccl 4:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7 Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.

    8 It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

  • Prov 7:15
    70%

    15 So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.

  • Prov 7:6-8
    3 verses
    69%

    6 Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,

    7 I saw among the young men one without sense,

    8 Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

  • Job 28:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12 But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

    13 Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.

  • Prov 8:35
    69%

    35 For whoever gets me gets life, and grace from the Lord will come to him.

  • Ps 37:36
    68%

    36 But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

  • Prov 2:4
    68%

    4 If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

  • Prov 20:6
    67%

    6 Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?

  • Eccl 9:9
    67%

    9 Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

  • Song 6:9
    67%

    9 My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.

  • Prov 3:15
    67%

    15 She is of more value than jewels, and nothing for which you may have a desire is fair in comparison with her.

  • Eccl 2:3
    67%

    3 I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.

  • Eccl 6:1
    66%

    1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;

  • Eccl 2:11
    66%

    11 Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Eccl 4:3
    66%

    3 Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 6:11
    66%

    11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

  • Prov 30:19
    66%

    19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a girl.

  • Song 5:6
    66%

    6 I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.

  • Eccl 7:15
    66%

    15 These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

  • Eccl 7:20
    66%

    20 There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

  • Isa 41:28
    66%

    28 And I saw that there was no man, even no wise man among them, who might give an answer to my questions.

  • Deut 22:27
    66%

    27 For he came across her in the open country, and there was no one to come to the help of the virgin in answer to her cry.

  • Ezek 22:30
    66%

    30 And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.

  • Eccl 2:20
    65%

    20 So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.

  • Prov 31:30
    65%

    30 Fair looks are a deceit, and a beautiful form is of no value; but a woman who has the fear of the Lord is to be praised.

  • Eccl 6:7
    65%

    7 All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.