Ecclesiastes 7:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher; laying one thing to another, to find out the account: More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, this I have found, says the Preacher, while weighing one thing after another to find out the right estimate [and the reason]– American Standard Version (1901) Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, laying one thing to another, to find out the account; Common English Bible See, this is what I found, says the Teacher, examining one matter after another to account for things. Catholic Public Domain Version And I have discovered a woman more bitter than death: she who is like the snare of a hunter, and whose heart is like a net, and whose hands are like chains. Whoever pleases God shall flee from her. But whoever is a sinner shall be seized by her. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
And I find a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
which my soul still seeketh, but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.