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


In Context

24 Far off is that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?

25 I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

26 And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is nets and snares, her hands are bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

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

28 (that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found.

29 See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they — they have sought out many devices.

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 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 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: