27 “Look,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find out the explanation, 28 which my soul continually searches for but does not find: I found one person in a thousand, but none of those was a woman.(A) 29 Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright,(B) but they pursued many schemes.”

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27 See, this is what I found, says the Teacher, examining one matter after another to account for things. 28 But there’s something that I constantly searched for but couldn’t find: I found one man among a thousand, but I couldn’t find a woman among any of these.[a]

29 See, this alone I found: God made human beings straightforward, but they search for many complications.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:28 Heb uncertain