Ecclesiastes 7:28
which my soul still seeks; but I have not found. One man among a thousand have I found; but I have not found a woman among all those.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 33:23 : 23 "If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;
- Ps 12:1 : 1 Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. 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 exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
- Isa 26:9 : 9 With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your 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 Yahweh said to the children of Israel, "You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon joined to these in love. 3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
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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 exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
25 I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
27 "Behold, I have found this," says the Preacher, "one to another, to find out the scheme;
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29 Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes."
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16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
17 then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.
- Song 3:1-44 verses72%
1 By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.
2 I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.
3 The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"
4 I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, into the room of her who conceived me.
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10 Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
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13 I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
15 That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.
16 I said to myself, "Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."
17 I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
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10 But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.
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22 Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
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7 Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
8 There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. "For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?" This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
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15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
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6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
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12 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?
13 Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.
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35 For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.
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36 But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
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4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
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6 Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?
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9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
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9 My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
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15 She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.
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1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:
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11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
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3 Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
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11 For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
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19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent on a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden.
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6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer.
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15 All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.
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20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.
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28 When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
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27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her.
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30 I sought for a man among them, who 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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20 Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.
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30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
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7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.