| Ecclesiastes 7:29 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "Behold, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices." (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | I have found only this: God made people decent, but they looked for many ways to avoid being decent." (GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. |
| ASV: | Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. |
| BBE: | This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions. |
| DBY: | Only see this which I have found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices. |
| ERV: | Behold, this only have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. |
| JPS: | Behold, this only have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. |
| WBS: | Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. |
| WEB: | Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes. |
| YLT: | See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they -- they have sought out many devices. |
| Ecclesiastes 7:29 Cross References |
| XREF: | Genesis 1:27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many {t} devices.
(t) And so are cause for their own destruction. |
| WES: | 7:29 Lo, this - Though I could not find out all the streams of wickedness, and their infinite windings and turnings, yet I have discovered the fountain of it, Original sin, and the corruption of nature, which is both in men and women. That - God made our first parents, Adam and Eve. Upright - Heb. right: without any imperfection or corruption, conformable to his nature and will, after his own likeness. They - Our first parents, and after them their posterity. Sought out - Were not contented with their present state, but studied new ways of making themselves more wise and happy, than God had made them. And we, their wretched children, are still prone to forsake the certain rule of God's word, and the true way to happiness, and to seek new methods of attaining it. |
| MHC: | 7:23-29 Solomon, in his search into the nature and reason of things, had been miserably deluded. But he here speaks with godly sorrow. He alone who constantly aims to please God, can expect to escape; the careless sinner probably will fall to rise no more. He now discovered more than ever the evil of the great sin of which he had been guilty, the loving many strange women, |
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