Jeremiah 5:1 - Exposition

If ye can find a man . "A man" is explained by the following clauses. It is a man whose practice and whose aims are right, of whom Jeremiah, like Diogenes with his lantern, is in search. (It is evident that the prophet speaks rhetorically, for himself and his disciples, however few, were doubtless "men" in the prophetic sense of the word.) Judgment … the truth ; rather, justice … good faith , the primary virtues of civil society.