27Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account,


In Context

24 Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?

25 I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent:

26 And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.

27 Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account,

28 Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.

29 Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?

Ecclesiastes 7:27 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:27Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, [counting] one by one, to find out the account:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:27"Look," says the Teacher, "this is what I have discovered: "Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things-

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:27Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, laying one thing to another, to find out the account;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:27See this which I have found, saith the Preacher, searching one by one to find out the reason;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:27Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher; laying one thing to another, to find out the account:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:27Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:27|Behold, I have found this,| says the Preacher, |one to another, to find out the scheme;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:27See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:27Behold, this have I found, said the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account: