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

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27 “Look,” says the Teacher,[a](A) “this is what I have discovered:

“Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—

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  1. Ecclesiastes 7:27 Or the leader of the assembly

27 “Here is what I have found,” says (A)the Preacher,
Adding one thing to the other to find out the reason,

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28 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.

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28     while I was still searching
    but not finding—
I found one upright man among a thousand,
    but not one upright woman(A) among them all.

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28 Which my soul still seeks but I cannot find:
(A)One man among a thousand I have found,
But a woman among all these I have not found.

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