Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Ecclesiastes 7:27
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“Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
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Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, [counting] one by one, to find out the account:
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“Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find an explanation
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Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, [laying] one thing to another, to find out the account;
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
Ecclesiastes 7
25 I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
27 “Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
28 While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.
29 Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
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