Ecclesiastes 7:27
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
“Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
In context
25 I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
27 “Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
28 While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.
29 Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
Ecclesiastes 7:27 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
- KJV King James Version
- Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
- WEB World English Bible
- “Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find an explanation
- ASV American Standard Version
- Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, laying one thing to another, to find out the account;
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason
- DBY Darby Translation
- See this which I have found, saith the Preacher, [searching] one by one to find out the reason;
- WBS Webster Bible
- Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account: