Parallel Bible results for "Ecclesiastes 7:26-29"

Ecclesiastes 7:26-29

The Message Bible MSG

26 One discovery: A woman can be a bitter pill to swallow, full of seductive scheming and grasping. The lucky escape her; the undiscerning get caught.

27 At least this is my experience - what I, the Quester, have pieced together as I've tried to make sense of life.

28 But the wisdom I've looked for I haven't found. I didn't find one man or woman in a thousand worth my while.

29 Yet I did spot one ray of light in this murk: God made men and women true and upright; we're the ones who've made a mess of things.

New International Version NIV

26 I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.

27 “Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered: “Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—

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

29 This only have I found: God created mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes.”