27"Look," says the Teacher, "this is what I have discovered: "Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things-
27"Look," says the Teacher, "this is what I have discovered: "Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things-
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."
7:27Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, [counting] one by one, to find out the account:
7:27Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account,
7:27Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, laying one thing to another, to find out the account;
7:27See this which I have found, saith the Preacher, searching one by one to find out the reason;
7:27Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher; laying one thing to another, to find out the account:
7:27Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
7:27|Behold, I have found this,| says the Preacher, |one to another, to find out the scheme;
7:27See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason
7:27Behold, this have I found, said the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account: