6 Bible Verses about Seeking But Not Finding People

The Beloved about Her Lover: All night long on my bed I longed for my lover. I longed for him but he never appeared.

I opened for my beloved, but my lover had already turned and gone away. I fell into despair when he departed. I looked for him but did not find him; I called him but he did not answer me.

When Herod had searched for him and did not find him, he questioned the guards and commanded that they be led away to execution. Then Herod went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.

But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found.

When you will look for your opponents, you will not find them; your enemies will be reduced to absolutely nothing.

Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch them; she will seek them, but she will not find them. Then she will say, "I will go back to my husband, because I was better off then than I am now."