Ecclesiastes 7:29 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁹ Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright,  but they pursued many schemes.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ Behold, this is the only [reason for it that] I have found: God made man upright, but they [men and women] have sought out many devices [for evil].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Common English Bible

²⁹ See, this alone I found: God made human beings straightforward, but they search for many complications.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ which my soul still seeks and has not found. One man among a thousand, I have found; a woman among them all, I have not found.

Ecclesiastes 7:29 Cross References

Genesis 5:1

This is the document containing the family  records  of Adam.  On the day that God created man,  he made him in the likeness of God;

Ecclesiastes 8:1

Who is like the wise person, and who knows the interpretation of a matter? A person’s wisdom brightens his face, and the sternness of his face is changed.

Jeremiah 4:22

‘For my people are fools; they do not know me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing what is evil, but they do not know how to do what is good.’

Ezekiel 28:15

From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways until wickedness was found in you.

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions  and pleasures,  living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.