Bible in Basic English
"Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,"
— Ecclesiastes 7:27, Bible in Basic English
“Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:”
“Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, laying one thing to another, to find out the account; ”
“"Behold, I have found this," says the Preacher, "one to another, to find out the scheme;”
“The Teacher says: I discovered this while trying to discover the scheme of things, item by item.”
“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.”
“Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:”
Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?
I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.
And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,
For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen.
This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.