Ecclesiastes 7:29 “Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind uprigh…”

Ecclesiastes 7:29

Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

World English Bible

Behold, I have only found this: that God made mankind upright; but they search for many inventions.”

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Beholde, sayth the Preacher, this haue I found, seeking one by one to finde the count:

Darby Translation

Only see this which I have found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.

Young's Literal Translation

See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they — they have sought out many devices.

Bible in Basic English

This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.

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Cross references

“God”

Genesis 5:1 Genesis 1:26 Genesis 1:27

Genesis 5:1 · BSB

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.

Genesis 1:26 · BSB

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

Genesis 1:27 · BSB

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

“they”

Jeremiah 4:22 Titus 3:3 Psalm 99:8 Psalm 106:39 Genesis 11:4–6 Psalm 106:29

Jeremiah 4:22 · BSB

“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”

Titus 3:3 · BSB

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Psalm 99:8 · BSB

O LORD our God, You answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, yet an avenger of their misdeeds.

Psalm 106:39 · BSB

They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

Genesis 11:4–6 · BSB

“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

Psalm 106:29 · BSB

So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

28While 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.

Read Ecclesiastes 7