then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.

therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.

I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; but the desire that cometh to pass is a tree of life.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting breath of them that seek death.

'They have smitten me, and I am not sore; they have beaten me, and I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.''

They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them.

Evil men understand not judgment; but they that seek Jehovah understand everything.

Many seek the ruler's face; but a man's right judgment is from Jehovah.

Such is the way of an adulterous woman: she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.