Ecclesiastes 12:10
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Acceptable Blamelessly Correctly Delight Delightful Find Koheleth Pleasing Preacher Right Search Searched Sought Teacher True. Truth Upright Uprightly Words Write Writing Written Wrote
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Acceptable Blamelessly Correctly Delight Delightful Find Koheleth Pleasing Preacher Right Search Searched Sought Teacher True. Truth Upright Uprightly Words Write Writing Written Wrote
Parallel Verses
English Standard Version
The Preacher sought to find words of delight, and uprightly he wrote words of truth.

New American Standard Bible
The Preacher sought to find delightful words and to write words of truth correctly.

King James Bible
The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Teacher sought to find delightful sayings and write words of truth accurately.

International Standard Version
The Teacher searched to find appropriate expressions, and what is written here is right and truthful.

NET Bible
The Teacher sought to find delightful words, and to write accurately truthful sayings.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The spokesman tried to find just the right words. He wrote the words of truth very carefully.

King James 2000 Bible
The preacher sought to find acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.

American King James Version
The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.

American Standard Version
The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written uprightly, even words of truth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He sought profitable words, and wrote words most right, and full of truth.

Darby Bible Translation
The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words; and that which was written is upright, words of truth.

English Revised Version
The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written uprightly, even words of truth.

Webster's Bible Translation
The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.

World English Bible
The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.

Young's Literal Translation
The preacher sought to find out pleasing words, and, written by the upright, words of truth.
Lexicon
The preacher
qoheleth  (ko-heh'-leth)
a (female) assembler (i.e. lecturer): abstractly, preaching (used as a nom de plume, Koheleth) -- preacher.
sought
baqash  (baw-kash')
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
to find out
matsa'  (maw-tsaw')
to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
acceptable
chephets  (khay'-fets)
pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)
words
dabar  (daw-baw')
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
and that which was written
kathab  (kaw-thab')
to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe) -- describe, record, prescribe, subscribe, write(-ing, -ten).
was upright
yosher  (yo'-sher)
the right -- equity, meet, right, upright(-ness).
even words
dabar  (daw-baw')
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
of truth
'emeth  (eh'-meth)
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness -- assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure, true (-ly, -th), verity.
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