Ecclesiastes 7:28
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.
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- Job 33:23 Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,
- Psalm 12:1 Help, O LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.
- 1 Kings 11:1–3 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh — women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love. He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines — and his wives turned his heart away.