Ecclesiastes 7:27

Ecclesiastes 7:27 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
• New International Version (NIV)“Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered: “Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—
• English Standard Version (ESV)Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things—
• New King James Version (NKJV)Here is what I have found,” says the Preacher, “Adding one thing to the other to find out the reason,

Context of Ecclesiastes 7:27

25I turned around and directed my heart to know, to investigate and to seek [skillful and godly] wisdom and the reason for things, and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness [leading to stupidity and recklessness]. 26And I discovered that [of all irrational sins none has been so destructive in beguiling one away from God as immoral women for] more bitter than death is the woman whose heart is [composed of] snares and nets, and whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God will escape from her, but the sinner will be taken captive by her [evil]. “Behold, I have discovered this,” says the Preacher, “while adding one thing to another to find an explanation, 28which I am still seeking but have not found. I have found one man among a thousand [who pleases God], but I have not found [such] a woman among all these [a thousand in my harem]. 29Behold, I have found only this [as a reason]: God made man upright and uncorrupted, but they [both men and women] have sought out many devices [for evil].”

Ecclesiastes 7:27 word by word

רְאֵה֙ זֶ֣ה מָצָ֔אתִי אָמְרָ֖ה קֹהֶ֑לֶת אַחַ֥ת לְאַחַ֖ת לִמְצֹ֥א חֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Beholdרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: behold!H7200
• this have I foundמָצָאmâtsâ' · to findH4672
• saithאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• the preacherקֹהֶ֫לֶתqôheleth · preacherH6953
• oneאֶחָד'echâd · oneH259
• the accountחֶשְׁבּוֹןcheshbôn · explanationH2808

Cross-references for Ecclesiastes 7:27

• Ecclesiastes 1:1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
• Ecclesiastes 12:8“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All [that is done without God’s guidance] is vanity (futility).”
• Ecclesiastes 7:25I turned around and directed my heart to know, to investigate and to seek [skillful and godly] wisdom and the reason for things, and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness [leading to stupidity and recklessness].

Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 7:27

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 27Counting one by one - I have gone over every particular. I have compared one thing with another; man with woman, his wisdom with her wiles; his strength with her blandishments; his influence with her ascendancy; his powers of reason with her arts and cunning; and in a thousand men, I have found one thoroughly upright man; but among one thousand women I have not found one such. This is a lamentable account of the state of morals in Judea, in the days of…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-29Verses 23-29 Solomon, in his search into the nature and reason of things, had been miserably deluded. But he here speaks with godly sorrow. He alone who constantly aims to please God, can expect to escape; the careless sinner probably will fall to rise no more. He now discovered more than ever the evil of the great sin of which he had been guilty, the loving many strange women, I Kin. 11:1. A woman thoroughly upright and godly, he had not found. How was…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2727. this--namely, what follows in Ec 7:28. counting one by one--by comparing one thing with another [Holden and Maurer]. account--a right estimate. But Ec 7:28 more favors Gesenius. "Considering women one by one."Read the comment

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Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings