Ecclesiastes 7:28
which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.
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- Job 33:23 “If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him,
- Psalm 12:1 Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
- 1 Kings 11:1–3 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites, of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love. He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.