Bible verse
“Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
Ecclesiastes 7:27 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ecclesiastes 7.
23 All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.
24 What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?
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 men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
KJV
Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, [counting] one by one, to find out the account:
ASV
Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, laying one thing to another, to find out the account;
ERV
Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher; laying one thing to another, to find out the account:
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