NASB
""Behold, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices.""
— Ecclesiastes 7:29, NASB
“Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. ”
“Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. ”
“Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes."”
“This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.”
“Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.”
“This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.”
“Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. ”
And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.
"Behold, I have discovered this," says the Preacher, "adding one thing to another to find an explanation,
which I am still seeking but have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all these.
"Behold, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices."