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.
If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him,
Save, O Lord, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.
My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things—