while I was still searching but not finding— I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.
Yet if there is an angel at their side, a messenger, one out of a thousand, sent to tell them how to be upright,
Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore; those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.
“Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered: “Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—
My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.