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.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:3He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines--and his wives turned his heart away.
Ecclesiastes 7:27"Behold," says the Teacher, "I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
Treasury of Scripture
Which 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.
yet
Ecclesiastes 7:23,24
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me…
Isaiah 26:9
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
one
Job 33:23
If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
Psalm 12:1
To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
but
1 Kings 11:1-3
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; …
