Ecclesiastes 7:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁸ 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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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ Which I am still seeking but have not found–one upright man among a thousand have I found, but an upright woman among all those [one thousand in my harem] have I not found. [I Kings 11:3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁸ But there’s something that I constantly searched for but couldn’t find: I found one man among a thousand, but I couldn’t find a woman among any of these.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ Behold, Ecclesiastes said, I have discovered these things, one after another, in order that I might discover the explanation

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account,

Ecclesiastes 7:28 Cross References

Job 33:23

If there be with him an angel, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To shew unto man what is right for him;

Psalm 12:1

Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher; laying one thing to another, to find out the account:

Isaiah 26:9

With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.