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Ecclesiastes 7:28
Ecclesiastes 7:28 is verse 28 of Ecclesiastes chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
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.
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Ecclesiastes 7:26–29 · Berean Standard Bible
26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
27 “Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
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.
29 Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Ecclesiastes 7:23All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.
Ecclesiastes 7:24What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?
Isaiah 26:9My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
Job 33:23Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,
Psalms 12:1Help, O LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.
1 Kings 11:1King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
1 Kings 11:2These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
1 Kings 11:3He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.