7:28a While my soul was still searching but not finding,

Although I really searched, I didn’t find what I was looking for. (FBV)
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I tried desperately over and over to understand things, but I never did.

7:28b among a thousand I have found one upright man,

(Revised Standard Version🙂 One man among a thousand I found,

I found that ⌊only⌋ one man out of every thousand ⌊was upright/honest⌋ .
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I found that ⌊only⌋ one man among a large crowd ⌊did what was right⌋ .
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I found one man in a thousand that I could respect, (Good News Translation)

7:28c but among all these I have not found one such woman.

But I never found one woman who was upright/honest.
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But among them all, I did not find a good woman. (EEB)

7:28a-c (combined)

I sought further but only found one person in a thousand, and the one I found among so many was never a woman.
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I kept searching but I still did not understand how everything works. ⌊I met⌋ many people ⌊in my life⌋ . Among all of them only one man was decent and not one woman.
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Though I have searched repeatedly, I have not found what I was looking for. Only one out of a thousand men is virtuous, but not one woman! (New Living Translation (2004))

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