which my soul still seeks, but I have not found: among a thousand I have found one man, but among all those I have not found a woman.
If there be with him a [heavenly] agent, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him,
Help, LORD, for the holy man ceases, for the faithful fail from among the sons of men.
With my soul I have desired thee in the night. Yea, with my spirit within me I will seek thee earnestly. For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Behold, I have found this, says the Preacher, [laying] one thing to another, to find out the account,