Behold, I have only found this: that God made mankind upright; but they search for many inventions.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ecclesiastes 7:29 in context
Ecclesiastes 7:26–29
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I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
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“Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find an explanation
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which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.
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Behold, I have only found this: that God made mankind upright; but they search for many inventions.”
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