Ecclesiastes 7:27
World English Bible (WEB)
“Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find an explanation
In context
25 I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
27 “Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find an explanation
28 which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.
29 Behold, I have only found this: that God made mankind upright; but they search for many inventions.”
Ecclesiastes 7:27 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- “Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one 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:
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to 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: