Ecclesiastes 7:29 - New Revised Standard Version

²⁹ See, this alone I found, that God made human beings straightforward, but they have devised 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. 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 list of the descendants of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

Psalm 106:29

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

Psalm 106:39

Thus they became unclean by their acts, and prostituted themselves in their doings.

Psalm 99:8

O Lord our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.

Ecclesiastes 8:1

Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? Wisdom makes one's face shine, and the hardness of one's countenance is changed.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish, they do not know me; they are stupid children, they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but do not know how to do good.”

Ezekiel 28:15

You were blameless in your ways from the day that you were created, until iniquity was found in you.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.