Ecclesiastes 7:28
Although I really searched, I didn't find what I was looking for. People say, “I found one man among a thousand, but not one woman.”
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1 Kings 11:1King Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides Pharaoh's daughter, there were women from the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.
Psalms 12:1Help, Lord, for all the good people have gone! Those who trust in you have disappeared from among the people on earth.
Isaiah 26:9I look for you in the night; deep inside me I long for you. When your laws are shown to the earth, then the people of the world learn what is right.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:24-29
The Evil of Sin. 23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. 24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? 25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by… Read the whole commentary →