Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Lo, this only have I found, that God made man just and right, but they seek divers subtleties.
NET Bible
This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil 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
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 7:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Absolute Wisdom Is Unattainable
28 which my soul still seeks; but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found. 29 Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.
Cross References
Genesis 3:6-7
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
Genesis 1:26-27
God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.
Genesis 6:5-6
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 6:11-12
The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 11:4-6
They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
Psalm 99:8
You answered them, LORD our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings.
Psalm 106:29
Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.
Psalm 106:39
Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
Jeremiah 2:12-13
"Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 4:22
"For my people are foolish, they do not know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
Ezekiel 22:6-13
"'"Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
Mark 7:8-9
"For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men."
Acts 7:40-43
saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'
Romans 1:21-32
Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but their thinking became nonsense, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Romans 3:9-19
What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
Ephesians 2:2-3
in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
Titus 3:3
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.