Ecclesiastes
King James Version (KJV)


“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.”
King James Version (KJV)
7:28 Yet seeketh - I returned to search again with more earnestness. I find not - That it was so, he found, but the reason of the thing he could not find out. One man - A wise and virtuous man. A woman - One worthy of that name; one who is not a dishonour to her sex. Among - In that thousand whom I have taken into intimate society with myself.
Which yet my soule seeketh, but I finde not: one man among a thousand haue I found, but a woman among all those haue I not found.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
which I am still seeking but have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all these.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
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.
- American Standard Version (1901)
For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen.
- Basic English Bible
While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.
- Berean Standard Bible Bible
which 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.
- Darby Bible
Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account,
- Douay-Rheims Bible
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.
- English Revised Version
which 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.
- World English Bible