Ecclesiastes 7:28
New King James Version
28 Which my soul still seeks but I cannot find:
(A)One man among a thousand I have found,
But a woman among all these I have not found.
Job 33:23
New King James Version
23 “If there is a messenger for him,
A mediator, one among a thousand,
To show man His uprightness,
1 Kings 11:1-3
New King James Version
Solomon’s Heart Turns from the Lord
11 But (A)King Solomon loved (B)many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites— 2 from the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel, (C)“You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
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Psalm 12:1
New King James Version
Man’s Treachery and God’s Constancy
To the Chief Musician. (A)On [a]an eight-stringed harp. A Psalm of David.
12 Help,[b] Lord, for the godly man (B)ceases!
For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
Footnotes
- Psalm 12:1 Heb. sheminith
- Psalm 12:1 Save
Isaiah 26:9
New King James Version
9 (A)With my soul I have desired You in the night,
Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early;
For when Your judgments are in the earth,
The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Ecclesiastes 7:23-24
New King James Version
23 All this I have [a]proved by wisdom.
(A)I said, “I will be wise”;
But it was far from me.
24 (B)As for that which is far off and (C)exceedingly deep,
Who can find it out?
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 7:23 tested
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