Ecclesiastes 7:28
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New International Version (©1984)
while I was still searching but not finding--I found one [upright] man among a thousand, but not one [upright] woman among them all.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Though I have searched repeatedly, I have not found what I was looking for. Only one out of a thousand men is virtuous, but not one woman!

English Standard Version (©2001)
which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
which I am still seeking but have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all these.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I am still seeking a reason for things, but have not found any. I found one man out of a thousand who had it, but out of all these I didn't find one woman.

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
Which yet my soul seeks, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.

Darby Bible Translation
which my soul yet seeketh, and I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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. One man among a thousand have I found; but I have not found a woman among all those.

Young's Literal Translation
(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.

Geneva Study Bible

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.

Wesley's Notes

7:28 Yet seeketh - I returned to search again with more earnestness. I find not - That it was so, he found, but the reason of the thing he could not find out. One man - A wise and virtuous man. A woman - One worthy of that name; one who is not a dishonour to her sex. Among - In that thousand whom I have taken into intimate society with myself.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

28. Rather, referring to his past experience, "Which my soul sought further, but I found not."

one man-that is, worthy of the name, "man," "upright"; not more than one in a thousand of my courtiers (Job 33:23; Ps 12:1). Jesus Christ alone of men fully realizes the perfect ideal of "man." "Chiefest among ten thousand" (So 5:10). No perfect "woman" has ever existed, not even the Virgin Mary. Solomon, in the word "thousand," alludes to his three hundred wives and seven hundred concubines. Among these it was not likely that he should find the fidelity which one true wife pays to one husband. Connected with Ec 7:26, not an unqualified condemnation of the sex, as Pr 12:4; 31:10, &c., prove.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:23-29 Solomon, in his search into the nature and reason of things, had been miserably deluded. But he here speaks with godly sorrow. He alone who constantly aims to please God, can expect to escape; the careless sinner probably will fall to rise no more. He now discovered more than ever the evil of the great sin of which he had been guilty, the loving many strange women,


1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. (NASB ©1995)

Find Finding Found Mind Repeatedly Searching Seeketh Seeking Seeks Sought Soul Teacher Thousand Upright


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.

yet 23,24 Isa 26:9

one Job 33:23 Ps 12:1

but 1Ki 11:1-3

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