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Ecclesiastes 7:28

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 7:28 in other translations

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:28 · American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 7:28 in context

  1. 26I 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.
  2. 27“Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find out the scheme
  3. 28which 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.
  4. 29Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”