Ecclesiastes 7:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ 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)

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

Common English Bible

²⁷ See, this is what I found, says the Teacher, examining one matter after another to account for things.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ 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.

Ecclesiastes 7:27 Tagairtí Cros

Ecclesiastes 1:12

I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:28

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.