Ecclesiastes 7:29 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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 book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Psalm 106:29

Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings; And the plague brake in upon them.

Psalm 106:39

Thus were they defiled with their works, And went a whoring in their doings.

Psalm 99:8

Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: Thou wast a God that forgavest them, Though thou tookest vengeance of their doings.

Ecclesiastes 8:1

Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people is foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Ezekiel 28:15

Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.

Titus 3:3

For we also were aforetime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.