Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Lo, this only have I found, that God made man just and right, but they seek divers subtleties.
New American Standard Bible
Behold, I have found only this, that
King James Version
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Holman Bible
Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright,
International Standard Version
I have discovered only this: God made human beings for righteousness, but they seek many alternatives."
A Conservative Version
Behold, this only I have found: That God made man upright, but they have sought out many contrivances.
American Standard Version
Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Amplified
Behold, I have found only this [as a reason]: God made man upright and uncorrupted, but they [both men and women] have sought out many devices [for evil].”
Bible in Basic English
This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.
Darby Translation
Only see this which I have found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.
Julia Smith Translation
Only see, this I found, that God made man upright; and they sought out many purposes.
King James 2000
Lo, this only have I found, that God has made man upright; but they have sought out many devices.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look! This alone I found: God made mankind upright, but they have devised many schemes."
Modern King James verseion
Lo, this only I have found, that God has made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions.
NET Bible
This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.
New Heart English Bible
Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.
The Emphasized Bible
Only, see, this, have I found, That God made man upright, but, they, have sought out many devices.
Webster
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
World English Bible
Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes."
Youngs Literal Translation
See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they -- they have sought out many devices.
Themes
Man » Created in the image of God
Man » Created » In uprightness
Man » Has sought out many inventions
Interlinear
Ra'ah
Bad
Matsa'
'elohiym
Yashar
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 7:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Absolute Wisdom Is Unattainable
28 Among a thousand men I have found one, but not one woman among all. 29 Lo, this only have I found, that God made man just and right, but they seek divers subtleties.
Cross References
Genesis 3:6-7
And the woman saw that it was a good tree to eat of, and lusty unto the eyes, and a pleasant tree for to make wise. And took of the fruit of it and ate, and gave unto her husband also with her, and he ate.
Genesis 1:26-27
And God said, "Let us make man in our similitude and after our likeness: that he may have rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over all worms that creep on the earth."
Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generation of man, in the day when God created man and made him after the similitude of God.
Genesis 6:5-6
And when the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was increased upon the earth, and that all the imagination and thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,
Genesis 6:11-12
And the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and was full of mischief.
Genesis 11:4-6
And they said, "Come on, let us build us a city and a tower, that the top may reach unto heaven. And let us make us a name, for peradventure we shall be scattered abroad over all the earth."
Psalm 99:8
Thou heardest them, O LORD our God; thou forgavest them, O God, and punished their own inventions.
Psalm 106:29
Thus they provoked him unto anger with their own inventions; and the plague was great among them.
Psalm 106:39
Thus were they stained with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
Jeremiah 2:12-13
Be astonished, O ye heavens, be afraid, and abashed at such a thing, sayeth the LORD.
Jeremiah 4:22
"Nevertheless this shall come upon them because my people is become foolish, and hath utterly no understanding. They are the children of foolishness, and without any discretion. To do evil, they have wit enough: but to do well, they have no wisdom."
Ezekiel 22:6-13
Behold, the rulers of Israel have brought every man his power, to shed blood in thee.
Mark 7:8-9
for ye lay the commandment of God apart, and ye observe the traditions of men as the washing of cruses and of cups, and many other such like things ye do."
Acts 7:40-43
saying unto Aaron, 'Make us gods to go before us. For we know not what is become of this Moses that brought us out of the land of Egypt.'
Romans 1:21-32
inasmuch as when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful: but waxed full of vanities in their imaginations. And their foolish hearts were blinded.
Romans 3:9-19
What say we then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise. For we have already proved how that both Jews and gentiles are all under sin,
Ephesians 2:2-3
in the which, in time past, ye walked, according to the course of this world, and after the governor that ruleth in the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of unbelief,
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another.