Ecclesiastes 7:28
(that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 33:23 : 23 If there is by him a messenger, An interpreter -- one of a thousand, To declare for man his uprightness:
- Ps 12:1 : 1 To the Overseer, on the octave. -- A Psalm of David. Save, Jehovah, for the saintly hath failed, For the stedfast have ceased From the sons of men:
- Eccl 7:23-24 : 23 All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, `I am wise,' and it `is' far from me. 24 Far off `is' that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?
- Isa 26:9 : 9 `With' my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, `with' my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments `are' on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.
- 1 Kgs 11:1-3 : 1 And king Solomon hath loved many strange women, and the daughter of Pharaoh, females of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Zidon, `and' of the Hittites, 2 of the nations of which Jehovah said unto the sons of Israel, `Ye do not go in to them, and they do not go in to you; surely they turn aside your heart after their gods;' to them hath Solomon cleaved for love. 3 And he hath women, princesses, seven hundred, and concubines three hundred; and his wives turn aside his heart.
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- Eccl 7:23-275 verses88%
23All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, `I am wise,' and it `is' far from me.
24Far off `is' that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?
25I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.
26And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart `is' nets and snares, her hands `are' bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.
27See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason
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29See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they -- they have sought out many devices.
- Eccl 8:16-172 verses73%
16When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),
17then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.
- Song 3:1-44 verses72%
1On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not!
2-- Pray, let me rise, and go round the city, In the streets and in the broad places, I seek him whom my soul hath loved! -- I sought him, and I found him not.
3The watchmen have found me, (Who are going round about the city), `Him whom my soul have loved saw ye?'
4But a little I passed on from them, Till I found him whom my soul hath loved! I seized him, and let him not go, Till I brought him in unto the house of my mother -- And the chamber of her that conceived me.
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10A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies `is' her price.
- Eccl 1:13-175 verses71%
13And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It `is' a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.
14I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit!
15A crooked thing `one' is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.
16I -- I spake with my heart, saying, `I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.
17And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is' vexation of spirit;
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10Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.
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22`Whoso' hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.
- Eccl 4:7-82 verses70%
7And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:
8There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and `he saith not', `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.
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15Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee.
- Prov 7:6-83 verses69%
6For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out,
7And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,
8Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way `to' her house he doth step,
- Job 28:12-132 verses69%
12And the wisdom -- whence is it found? And where `is' this, the place of understanding?
13Man hath not known its arrangement, Nor is it found in the land of the living.
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35For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.
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36And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!
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4If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,
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6A multitude of men proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find?
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9See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it `is' thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.
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9One is my dove, my perfect one, One she `is' of her mother, The choice one she `is' of her that bare her, Daughters saw, and pronounce her happy, Queens and concubines, and they praise her.
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15Precious she `is' above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her.
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3I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where `is' this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.
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1There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it `is' great on man:
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11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!
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3And better than both of them `is' he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.
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11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?
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19The way of the eagle in the heavens, The way of a serpent on a rock, The way of a ship in the heart of the sea, And the way of a man in youth.
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6I opened to my beloved, But my beloved withdrew -- he passed on, My soul went forth when he spake, I sought him, and found him not. I called him, and he answered me not.
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15The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.
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20Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.
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28And I see that there is no man, Yea, of these that there is no counsellor, And I ask them, and they return word:
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27for in a field he found her, she hath cried -- the damsel who is betrothed -- and she hath no saviour.
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30And I seek of them a man making a fence, And standing in the breach before Me, In behalf of the land -- not to destroy it, And I have not found.
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20And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.
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30The grace `is' false, and the beauty `is' vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.
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7All the labour of man `is' for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.