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


In Context

24 Whatever wisdom may be, it is far off and most profound- who can discover it?

25 So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.

26 I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.

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

28 while I was still searching but not finding- I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.

29 This only have I found: God made mankind upright, but men have gone in search of many schemes."

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:27Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account,

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: