New English Translation
Ecclesiastes 7:27
27The Teacher says: I discovered this while trying to discover the scheme of things, item by item.
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 tried to understand, examine, and comprehend the role of wisdom in the scheme of things, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the insanity of folly. 26I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her. The Teacher says: I discovered this while trying to discover the scheme of things, item by item. 28What I have continually sought, I have not found; I have found only one upright man among a thousand, but I have not found one upright woman among all of them. 29This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.
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רְאֵה֙ זֶ֣ה מָצָ֔אתִי אָמְרָ֖ה קֹהֶ֑לֶת אַחַ֥ת לְאַחַ֖ת לִמְצֹ֥א חֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Ecclesiastes 7:27
- Ecclesiastes 1:1The words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:
- Ecclesiastes 12:8“Absolutely futile!” laments the Teacher, “All of these things are futile!”
- Ecclesiastes 7:25I tried to understand, examine, and comprehend the role of wisdom in the scheme of things, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the insanity of folly.
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
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