King James Version with Apocrypha
"Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:"
— Ecclesiastes 7:27, King James Version with Apocrypha
“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.”
“Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,”
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
And I find more bitter than death 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.
Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.