Ecclesiastes 7:28
(7:30) And yet my soule seeketh, but I finde it not: I haue found one man of a thousand: but a woman among them all haue I not founde.
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- Job 33:23 : 23 If there be a messenger with him, or an interpreter, one of a thousand to declare vnto man his righteousnesse,
- Ps 12:1 : 1 To him that excelleth vpon the eight tune. A Psalme of Dauid. Helpe Lord, for there is not a godly man left: for the faithfull are fayled from among the children of men.
- Eccl 7:23-24 : 23 (7:2) All this haue I prooued by wisedome: I thought I will be wise, but it went farre from me. 24 (7:26) It is farre off, what may it be? And it is a profound deepenesse, who can finde it?
- Isa 26:9 : 9 With my soule haue I desired thee in the night, and with my spirit within mee will I seeke thee in the morning: for seeing thy iudgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learne righteousnesse.
- 1 Kgs 11:1-3 : 1 Bvt King Salomon loued many outlandish women: both the daughter of Pharaoh, and the women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Zidon and Heth, 2 Of the nations, whereof the Lord had sayd vnto the children of Israel, Goe not ye in to them, nor let them come in to you: for surely they will turne your hearts after their gods, to them, I say, did Salomon ioyne in loue. 3 And he had seuen hundreth wiues, that were princesses, and three hundreth concubines, and his wiues turned away his heart.
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- Eccl 7:23-275 verses88%
23 (7:2) All this haue I prooued by wisedome: I thought I will be wise, but it went farre from me.
24 (7:26) It is farre off, what may it be? And it is a profound deepenesse, who can finde it?
25 (7:27) I haue compassed about, both I and mine heart to knowe and to enquire and to search wisedome, and reason, and to knowe the wickednesse of follie, and the foolishnesse of madnesse,
26 (7:28) And I finde more bitter then death the woman whose heart is as nettes and snares, and her handes, as bands: he that is good before God, shalbe deliuered from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.
27 (7:29) Beholde, sayth the Preacher, this haue I found, seeking one by one to finde the count:
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29 (7:31) Onely loe, this haue I founde, that God hath made man righteous: but they haue sought many inuentions.
- Eccl 8:16-172 verses73%
16 When I applied mine heart to knowe wisedome, and to behold the busines that is done on earth, that neither day nor night the eyes of man take sleepe,
17 Then I behelde the whole worke of God, that man cannot finde out ye worke that is wrought vnder the sunne: for the which man laboureth to seeke it, and cannot finde it: yea, and though the wise man thinke to knowe it, he cannot finde it.
- Song 3:1-44 verses72%
1 In my bed by night I sought him that my soule loued: I sought him, but I found him not.
2 I will rise therefore nowe, and goe about in the citie, by the streetes and by the open places, and wil seeke him that my soule loueth: I sought him, but I found him not.
3 The watchmen that went about the citie, found mee: to whome I said, Haue you seene him, whome my soule loueth?
4 When I had past a litle from them, then I found him whom my soule loued: I tooke holde on him and left him not, till I had brought him vnto my mothers house into the chamber of her that conceiued me.
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10 Who shall finde a vertuous woman? for her price is farre aboue the pearles.
- Eccl 1:13-175 verses71%
13 And I haue giuen mine heart to search and finde out wisdome by all things that are done vnder the heauen: (this sore trauaile hath GOD giuen to the sonnes of men, to humble them thereby)
14 I haue considered all the workes that are done vnder the sunne, and beholde, all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.
15 That which is crooked, can none make straight: and that which faileth, cannot be nombred.
16 I thought in mine heart, and said, Behold, I am become great, and excell in wisdome all them that haue bene before me in Ierusalem: and mine heart hath seene much wisedome and knowledge.
17 And I gaue mine heart to knowe wisdome and knowledge, madnes and foolishnes: I knew also that this is a vexation of the spirit.
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10 All you therefore turne you, and come nowe, and I shall not finde one wise among you.
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22 He that findeth a wife, findeth a good thing, and receiueth fauour of the Lord.
- Eccl 4:7-82 verses70%
7 Againe I returned, and sawe vanitie vnder the sunne.
8 There is one alone, & there is not a second, which hath neither sonne nor brother, yet is there none end of all his trauaile, neither can his eye be satisfied with riches: neither doeth he thinke, For whome doe I trauaile and defraude my soule of pleasure? this also is vanitie, and this is an euill trauaile.
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15 Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.
- Prov 7:6-83 verses69%
6 As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,
7 And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,
8 Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,
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12 But where is wisdome found? and where is the place of vnderstanding?
13 Man knoweth not the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the liuing.
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35 For he that findeth me, findeth life, and shal obteine fauour of the Lord.
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36 Yet he passed away, and loe, he was gone, and I sought him, but he could not be founde.
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4 If thou seekest her as siluer, & searchest for her as for treasures,
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6 Many men wil boast, euery one of his owne goodnes: but who can finde a faithfull man?
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9 Reioyce with the wife whom thou hast loued all the dayes of the life of thy vanitie, which God hath giuen thee vnder the sunne all the dayes of thy vanitie: for this is thy portion in the life, and in thy trauaile wherein thou labourest vnder the sunne.
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9 But my doue is alone, and my vndefiled, she is the onely daughter of her mother, and shee is deare to her that bare her: the daughters haue seene her & counted her blessed: euen the Queenes and the concubines, and they haue praised her.
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15 It is more precious then pearles: and all things that thou canst desire, are not to be compared vnto her.
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3 I sought in mine heart to giue my selfe to wine, and to leade mine heart in wisdome, and to take holde of follie, till I might see where is that goodnesse of the children of men, which they enioy vnder the sunne: the whole nomber of the dayes of their life.
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1 There is an euill, which I sawe vnder the sunne, and it is much among men:
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11 Then I looked on all my workes that mine hands had wrought, and on the trauaile that I had laboured to doe: and beholde, all is vanitie and vexation of the spirit: and there is no profite vnder the sunne.
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3 And I count him better then them both, which hath not yet bin: for he hath not seene the euill workes which are wrought vnder the sunne.
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11 (7:1) Svrely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?
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19 The way of an eagle in the aire, the way of a serpent vpon a stone, ye way of a ship in ye middes of the sea, and the way of a man with a maide.
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6 I opened to my welbeloued: but my welbeloued was gone, and past: mine heart was gone when hee did speake: I sought him, but I coulde not finde him: I called him, but hee answered mee not.
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15 (7:17) I haue seene all things in the dayes of my vanitie: there is a iust man that perisheth in his iustice, and there is a wicked man that continueth long in his malice.
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20 (7:22) Surely there is no man iust in the earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.
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28 But when I behelde, there was none, and when I inquired of them, there was no counsellor, and when I demaunded of them, they answered not a woorde.
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27 For he found her in the fieldes: the betrothed mayde cryed, and there was no man to succour her.
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30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make vp the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
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20 Therefore I went about to make mine heart abhorre all the labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne.
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30 Fauour is deceitfull, and beautie is vanitie: but a woman that feareth the Lorde, she shall be praysed.
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7 All the labour of man is for his mouth: yet the soule is not filled.