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"This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes."
— Ecclesiastes 7:29, NET Bible
“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."”
“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. ”
I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.
The Teacher says: I discovered this while trying to discover the scheme of things, item by item.
What I have continually sought, I have not found; I have found only one upright man among a thousand, but I have not found one upright woman among all of them.
This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.