Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version This only have I found: God created mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes.” New Living Translation But I did find this: God created people to be virtuous, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path.” English Standard Version See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes. Berean Standard Bible Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.” King James Bible Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. New King James Version Truly, this only I have found: That God made man upright, But they have sought out many schemes.” New American Standard Bible Behold, I have found only this, that God made people upright, but they have sought out many schemes.” NASB 1995 “Behold, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices.” NASB 1977 “Behold, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices.” Legacy Standard Bible See, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices.” Amplified Bible 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].” Christian Standard Bible Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright, but they pursued many schemes.” Holman Christian Standard Bible Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright, but they pursued many schemes.” American Standard Version Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Aramaic Bible in Plain English However, see this that I have found: "God has made men upright, and they have searched out many schemes" Brenton Septuagint Translation But, behold, this have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many devices. Contemporary English Version I did learn one thing: We were completely honest when God created us, but now we have twisted minds. Douay-Rheims Bible Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word? English Revised Version Behold, this only have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. GOD'S WORD® Translation I have found only this: God made people decent, but they looked for many ways [to avoid being decent]." Good News Translation This is all that I have learned: God made us plain and simple, but we have made ourselves very complicated. International Standard Version I have discovered only this: God made human beings for righteousness, but they seek many alternatives." JPS Tanakh 1917 Behold, this only have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Literal Standard Version See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they have sought out many inventions. Majority Standard Bible Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.” New American Bible But this alone I have found: God made humankind honest, but they have pursued many designs. NET Bible This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes. New Revised Standard Version See, this alone I found, that God made human beings straightforward, but they have devised many schemes. New Heart English Bible Look, this only have I found, that God made humankind upright, but they search for many schemes. Webster's Bible Translation Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. World English Bible Behold, I have only found this: that God made mankind upright; but they search for many inventions.” Young's Literal Translation See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they -- they have sought out many devices. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Limits of Human Wisdom…28While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman. 29Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.” Cross References Genesis 1:27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Ecclesiastes 8:1 Who is like the wise man? Who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man's wisdom brightens his face, and the sternness of his face is changed. Treasury of Scripture See, this only have I found, that God has made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. god Genesis 1:26,27 And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth… 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; they Genesis 3:6,7 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat… Genesis 6:5,6,11,12 And GOD 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 11:4-6 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth… Jump to Previous Alone Devices Found Inventions Mankind Schemes Search Searching Sorts Sought UprightJump to Next Alone Devices Found Inventions Mankind Schemes Search Searching Sorts Sought UprightEcclesiastes 7 1. remedies against vanity are, a good name2. mortification 7. patience 11. wisdom 23. The difficulty of wisdom Verse 29. - Lo, this only (or, only see! this) have I found. Universal corruption was that which met his wide investigations, but of one thing he was sure, which he proceeds to specify - he has learned to trace the degradation to its source, not in God's agency, but in man's perverse will. That God hath made man upright. Koheleth believes that man's original constitution was yasbar, "straight," "right," "morally good," and possessed of ability to choose and follow what was just and right (Genesis 1:26, etc.). Thus in the Book of Wisdom (2:23) we read, "God created man to be immortal, and made him an imago of his own nature (ἰιότητος). Nevertheless, through envy of the devil, came death into the world, and they that are his portion tempt it." But they (men) have sought out many inventions (chishshebonoth); 2 Chronicles 26:15, where the term implies works of invention, and is translated "engines," i.e. devices, ways of going astray and deviating from original righteousness. Man has thus abased his free-will, and employed the inventive faculty with which he was endowed in excoriating evil (Genesis 6:5). How this state of things came about, how the originally good man became thus wicked, the writer does not tell. He knows from revelation that God made him upright; he knows from experience that he is now evil; and he leaves the matter there. Plumptre quotes, as illustrating our text, a passage from the 'Antigone' of Sophocles, vers. 332, 365, 366, which he renders- "Many the things that strange and wondrous are, Πολλὰ μέν γᾶ τρέφει "Many fearful plagues Hebrew Onlyלְבַד֙ (lə·ḇaḏ) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 905: Separation, a part of the body, branch of a, tree, bar for, carrying, chief of this זֶ֣ה (zeh) Pronoun - masculine singular Strong's 2088: This, that have I found: רְאֵה־ (rə·’êh-) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 7200: To see I have discovered מָצָ֔אתִי (mā·ṣā·ṯî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present that אֲשֶׁ֨ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that God הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative made עָשָׂ֧ה (‘ā·śāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6213: To do, make men הָאָדָ֖ם (hā·’ā·ḏām) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being upright, יָשָׁ֑ר (yā·šār) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 3477: Straight, right but they וְהֵ֥מָּה (wə·hêm·māh) Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person masculine plural Strong's 1992: They have sought out בִקְשׁ֖וּ (ḇiq·šū) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 1245: To search out, to strive after many רַבִּֽים׃ (rab·bîm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 7227: Much, many, great schemes.” חִשְּׁבֹנ֥וֹת (ḥiš·šə·ḇō·nō·wṯ) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2810: A contrivance, actual, mental Links Ecclesiastes 7:29 NIVEcclesiastes 7:29 NLT Ecclesiastes 7:29 ESV Ecclesiastes 7:29 NASB Ecclesiastes 7:29 KJV Ecclesiastes 7:29 BibleApps.com Ecclesiastes 7:29 Biblia Paralela Ecclesiastes 7:29 Chinese Bible Ecclesiastes 7:29 French Bible Ecclesiastes 7:29 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Ecclesiastes 7:29 Behold this only have I found: that (Ecclesiast. 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