Ecclesiastes 7:27

American Standard Version (1901)

Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, [laying] one thing to another, to find out the account;

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 1:1-2 : 1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
  • Eccl 12:8-9 : 8 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity. 9 And further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, and sought out, [and] set in order many proverbs. 10 The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written uprightly, [even] words of truth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 7:28-29
    2 verses
    88%

    28which my soul still seeketh, but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

    29Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

  • Eccl 7:23-26
    4 verses
    81%

    23All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

    24That which is, is far off and exceeding deep; who can find it out?

    25I turned about, and my heart [was set] to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason [of things], and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

    26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. [

  • Eccl 1:12-17
    6 verses
    75%

    12I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

    13And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

    15That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

    16I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

    17And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

  • Eccl 8:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes), [

    17then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

  • Prov 7:6-8
    3 verses
    72%

    6For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;

    7And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,

    8Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,

  • Eccl 12:8-10
    3 verses
    71%

    8Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

    9And further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, and sought out, [and] set in order many proverbs.

    10The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written uprightly, [even] words of truth.

  • Eccl 2:10-12
    3 verses
    71%

    10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.

    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

    12And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been done long ago.

  • Eccl 7:13-15
    3 verses
    71%

    13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

    14In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yea, God hath made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything [that shall be] after him.

    15All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth [his life] in his evil-doing.

  • Job 17:10
    71%

    10But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you.

  • Eccl 4:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

    8There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [saith he], do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

  • Prov 8:35
    70%

    35For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah.

  • Eccl 1:1-3
    3 verses
    70%

    1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

    2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

    3What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?

  • Eccl 6:1
    70%

    1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:

  • Prov 7:15
    70%

    15Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

  • Eccl 9:13
    70%

    13I have also seen wisdom under the sun on this wise, and it seemed great unto me:

  • Job 5:27
    70%

    27Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

  • Prov 7:10
    69%

    10And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.

  • Eccl 9:1
    69%

    1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.

  • Eccl 2:17
    69%

    17So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Eccl 6:11
    69%

    11Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

  • Eccl 2:20
    69%

    20Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.

  • Prov 31:10
    69%

    10A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

  • Prov 18:22
    69%

    22Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

  • Eccl 8:9
    68%

    9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.

  • Eccl 2:3
    68%

    3I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding [me] with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their life.

  • Eccl 4:3
    68%

    3yea, better than them both [did I esteem] him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 3:10
    68%

    10I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

  • Prov 7:12
    68%

    12Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)

  • Prov 6:31
    68%

    31But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; He shall give all the substance of his house.