Ecclesiastes 7:28
While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.
Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.
which my soul still seeketh, but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- yet
- Ecclesiastes 7:23, 24; Isaiah 26:9
- one
- Job 33:23; Psalm 12:1
- but
- Solomon, instead of seeking one rational, virtuous woman, had collected an immense multitude, of various countries and religions, for magnificence and indulgence; among whom, as might have been expected, he had not found one who was thoroughly faithful, upright, and pious. He here uses the language of a penitent, warning others of the errors into which he had been led; and not that of a wasphish satirist, lashing indiscriminately one half of the human species.
- 1 Kings 11:1–3