Bible verse
Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
Ecclesiastes 7:29 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ecclesiastes 7.
25 I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
27 “Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
28 While 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.
29 Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
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.
ERV
Behold, this only have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
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