29This only have I found: God made mankind upright, but men have gone in search of many schemes."


In Context

26 I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.

27 "Look," says the Teacher, "this is what I have discovered: "Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things-

28 while I was still searching but not finding- I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.

29 This only have I found: God made mankind upright, but men have gone in search of many schemes."

Ecclesiastes 7:29 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:29Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:29Only 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?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:29Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:29Only see this which I have found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:29Behold, this only have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:29Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:29Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:29See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they — they have sought out many devices.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:29See, this only have I found, that God has made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.