28while I was still searching but not finding- I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.


In Context

25 So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.

26 I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.

27 "Look," says the Teacher, "this is what I have discovered: "Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things-

28 while I was still searching but not finding- I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.

29 This only have I found: God made mankind upright, but men have gone in search of many schemes."

Ecclesiastes 7:28 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:28Which 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:28Which 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:28which 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:28which 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:28which 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:28Which 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:28which 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:28(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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:28Which 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.