Ecclesiastes 7:29
Ecclesiastes chapter 7 · verse 29 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Context
v.28which my soul still seeketh, but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 6:5
And Jehovah 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.
- Jeremiah 2:12
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah.
- Genesis 1:26
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 birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- Psalms 106:29
Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings; And the plague brake in upon them.
- Ezekiel 22:6
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood.
- Romans 3:9
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;