Bible verse

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:28 · BSB

Ecclesiastes 7:28 in context

The verses around it, from Ecclesiastes 7.

24 What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?

25 I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

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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Ecclesiastes 7:28 in other translations

KJV

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.

ASV

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.

ERV

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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