Ecclesiastes 7:28
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28 which my mind has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.
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Job 33:23
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23 Then, if there should be for one of them an angel,
a mediator, one of a thousand,
one who declares a person upright,(A)
1 Kings 11:1-3
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Solomon’s Errors
11 King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,(A) 2 from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the Israelites, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for they will surely incline your heart to follow their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.(B) 3 Among his wives were seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned away his heart.
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Psalm 12:1
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Psalm 12
Plea for Help in Evil Times
To the leader: according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
1 Help, O Lord, for there is no longer anyone who is godly;
the faithful have disappeared from humankind.(A)
Isaiah 26:9
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9 My soul yearns for you in the night;
my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
For when your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.(A)
Ecclesiastes 7:23-24
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23 All this I have tested by wisdom; I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me.(A) 24 That which is, is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?(B)
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