Ecclesiastes 7:28

Bishops' Bible (1568)

which as yet I seeke, and finde it not. Among a thousande men I haue founde one: but not one woman among all.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 33:23 : 23 Now yf there be a messenger, one among a thousande, sent for to speake vnto man, and to shew him the right way:
  • Ps 12:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition vpon (an instrument) of eyght stringes, a psalme of Dauid. Saue thou me O God, for there is not one godly man left: for the faythfull are diminished from among the chyldren of men.
  • Eccl 7:23-24 : 23 All these thinges haue I proued in wysdome, for I thought to be wyse, but she went farther from me then she was before: 24 yea and so deepe, that I might not reache vnto her.
  • Isa 26:9 : 9 My soule hath longed for thee all the night, and with my spirite whiche is within me wyll I seeke thee early in the morning: For when thy iudgementes are in the earth, the inhabiters of the worlde shall learne righteousnesse.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1-3 : 1 But king Solomo loued many outlandishe women, & the daughter of Pharao, and women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonites, & Hethites: 2 Wher as yet concerning these nations, the Lorde sayd vnto the children of Israel: Go not ye into them, nor let them come into, els will they turne your heartes after their gods: Neuerthelesse, Solomon claue vnto them in loue. 3 And he had seuen hundred queenes, and three hundred concubines: and his wyues turned away his heart.

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  • Eccl 7:23-27
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    23All these thinges haue I proued in wysdome, for I thought to be wyse, but she went farther from me then she was before:

    24yea and so deepe, that I might not reache vnto her.

    25I applied my minde also vnto knowledge, and to seeke and searche out science, wysdome, and vnderstanding, to knowe the foolishnesse of the vngodly, and the errour of doting fooles.

    26And I founde that a woman is bitterer then death, the whiche hath cast abrode her heart as a net that men fishe with, and her handes are chaynes: Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner wyll be taken with her.

    27Beholde (saith the preacher) this haue I diligently searched out and proued: One thing must be considered with another, that a man may come by knowledge,

  • Eccl 7:29
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    29Lo this onlye haue I founde, that God made man iust and right: but they sought many inuentions.

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16And so I applied my minde to learne wysdome, and to knowe the trauayle that is in the worlde, and that of suche a fashion, that I suffred not mine eyes to sleepe neither day nor night.

    17I vnderstoode of all the workes of God, but it is not possible for a man to attayne vnto the workes that are done vnder the sunne: and though he bestowe his labour to seeke them out, yet can he not reach vnto them: yea though a wyse man would vndertake to know them, yet shall he not finde them.

  • Song 3:1-4
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    1By night in my bed I sought hym whom my soule loueth: yea diligently sought I him, but I found him not.

    2I will get vp thought & go about the citie, in the wayes in all the streates wyll I seeke hym whom my soule loueth: but when I sought him I founde him not.

    3The watchmen also that go about the citie, founde me to whom I sayde Sawe ye not hym whom my soule loueth?

    4So when I was a litle past them, I founde him whom my soule loueth: I haue gotten holde vpon hym, and wyll not let him go, vntyll I bryng him into my mothers house, and into her chaumber that bare me.

  • Prov 31:10
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    10Who so fyndeth an honest faythfull woman, she is much more worth then pearles.

  • Eccl 1:13-17
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    13And dyd applie my mynde to seke out & searche for knowledge of all thynges that are done vnder heauen: Such trauayle and labour hath God geuen vnto the children of men, to exercise them selues therin.

    14Thus haue I considered all these thynges that come to passe vnder the sunne: and lo, they are all but vanitie and vexation of mynde.

    15The croked can not be made straight, nor the imperfection of thynges can be numbred.

    16I communed with myne owne heart, saying: lo I am come to great estate, and haue gotten more wisdome then all they that haue ben before me in Hierusalem.

    17Yea, my heart had great experience of wisdome & knowledge: for thervnto I applied my mynde, that I myght knowe what were wisdome and vnderstandyng, what were errour and foolishnesse: and I perceaued that this was also but a vexation of mynde.

  • Job 17:10
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    10As for al you, turne you and get you hence I pray you seeing I can not finde one wyse man among you.

  • Prov 18:22
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    22Who so findeth a wyfe, findeth a good thing, and receaueth fauour of the Lorde.

  • Eccl 4:7-8
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    7Moreouer I turned me, and beholde yet another vanitie vnder the sunne.

    8There is one man, no mo but himselfe alone, hauing neither childe nor brother, yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches: yet saith he not for whom do I take such trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume away my life? This is also a vayne and miserable thyng.

  • Prov 7:15
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    15Therefore came I foorth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face, and so haue I founde thee.

  • Prov 7:6-8
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    6For at the windowe of my house I loked through the windowe,

    7And behelde among the simple people and among the chyldren a young man voyde of wyt,

    8Goyng ouer the streate by the corner in the way towarde her house

  • Job 28:12-13
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    12Where then is wysdome founde? and where is the place of vnderstanding?

    13Ueryly no man can tell howe worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the lande of them that lyue.

  • Prov 8:35
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    35For whoso findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtaine fauour of the Lorde.

  • Ps 37:36
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    36And he vanished away, so that he could be no more seene: I sought hym, but he coulde no where be founde.

  • Prov 2:4
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    4If thou seekest for her as for siluer, and searchest for her as for treasures:

  • Prov 20:6
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    6Many there be that woulde be called good doers: but where shall one finde a faythfull man?

  • Eccl 9:9
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    9Use thy selfe to liue ioyfully with thy wife whom thou louest all the dayes of thy life whiche is but vayne, that God geueth thee vnder the sunne all the dayes of thy vanitie: for that is thy portion in this life of al thy labour and trauayle that thou takest vnder the sunne.

  • Song 6:9
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    9One is my doue, one is my dearlyng: She is the only beloued of her mother, and deare vnto her that bare her: When the daughters sawe her, they sayde she was blessed, yea the queenes & wiues praysed her.

  • Prov 3:15
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    15She is more worth then pretious stones: and all the thinges that thou canst desire, are not to be compared vnto her.

  • Eccl 2:3
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    3So I thought in my heart to geue my fleshe vnto wine, and agayne to apply my mynde vnto wisdome, and to comprehende foolishnesse: vntyll the tyme that among all the thynges which are vnder the sunne, I myght see what were best for men to do so long as they liue vnder heauen.

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1There is yet a plague vnder the sunne, and it is a generall thyng among men:

  • Eccl 2:11
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    11But when I considered all the workes that my handes had wrought, and all the labour that I had taken therin: lo all was but vanitie and vexation of mynde, and nothing of any value vnder the sunne.

  • Eccl 4:3
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    3Yea him that is yet vnborne, to be better at ease then they both: because he seeth not the miserable workes that are done vnder the sunne.

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11Many thinges there be that encrease vanitie, and what hath a man els?

  • Prov 30:19
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    19The way of an Egle in the ayre, the way of a serpent vpon a stone, the way of a ship in the middest of the sea, and the way of a man with a young woman:

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    6I opened vnto my beloued, but he was departed and gone his way: Now whe he spake, my heart was gone: I sought him, but I coulde not finde him: I cryed vpon hym, neuerthelesse he gaue me no aunswere.

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    15All thinges haue I considered in the time of my vanitie: that the iust man perisheth for his righteousnesse sake, & the vngodly liueth in his wickednesse.

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    20For there is not one iust vpon earth that doth good, and sinneth not.

  • Isa 41:28
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    28But when I consider, there is not a man among them, nor any that can geue counsayle, nor that when I examine them that can aunswere one worde.

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    27For he found her in the fieldes: and the betrouthed damsell cryed, & there was no man to succour her.

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    30And I sought among them for a man that woulde make vp the hedge, and set hym selfe in the gap before me in the landes behalfe, that I shoulde not destroy it: but I coulde fynde none.

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    20So I turned me to refrayne my mynde from all such trauayle as I toke vnder the sunne,

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    30As for fauour it is deceiptfull, & beautie is a vayne thyng: but a woman that feareth the Lorde, shalbe praysed.

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    7All the labour that a man taketh, is for him selfe, and yet his desire is neuer fylled after his mynde.