Ecclesiastes Chapter 7 verse 27 Holy Bible

ASV Ecclesiastes 7:27

Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, `laying' one thing to another, to find out the account;
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BBE Ecclesiastes 7:27

Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,
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DARBY Ecclesiastes 7:27

See this which I have found, saith the Preacher, [searching] one by one to find out the reason;
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KJV Ecclesiastes 7:27

Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
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WBT Ecclesiastes 7:27


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WEB Ecclesiastes 7:27

Behold, this have I found, says the Preacher, one to another, to find out the scheme;
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YLT Ecclesiastes 7:27

See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - Behold, this have I found. The result of his search, thus forcibly introduced, follows in ver. 28. He has carefully examined the character and conduct of both sexes, and he is constrained to make the unsatisfactory remark which he there puts forth. Saith the preacher. Koheleth is here treated as a feminine noun, being joined with the feminine form of the verb, though elsewhere it is grammatically regarded as masculine (see on Ecclesiastes 1:1). Many have thought that, after speaking so disparagingly of woman, it would be singularly inappropriate to introduce the official preacher as a female; they have therefore adopted a slight alteration in the text, viz. אָמַר חַקֹּחֶלֶת instead of אָמְרָה קֹהֶלֶת, which is simply the transference of he from the end of one word to the beginning of the next, thus adding the article, as in Ecclesiastes 12:8, and making the term accord with the Syriac and Arabic, and the Septuagint, εϊπεν ὁ Ἐκκλησιαστής. The writer here introduces his own designation in order to call special attention to what is coming. Counting one by one. The phrase is elliptical, and signifies, adding one thing to another, or weighing one thing after another, putting together various facts or marks. To find out the account; to arrive at the reckoning, the desired result.

Ellicott's Commentary