Ecclesiastes 7:29 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁹Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Ecclesiastes 7:29 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 4:22
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Mark 7:8-9
For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. …
Genesis 6:11-12
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. …
Jeremiah 2:12-13
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. …

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Creation Depravity of Man Fall of Man God Guidance Lord

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 23-29)

Solomon had hitherto been proving the vanity of the world and its utter insufficiency to make men happy; now here he comes to show the vileness of sin, and its certain tendency to make men miserable; and this, as the former, he proves from his own experience, and it was a dear-bought experience. He is here, more than any where in all this book, putting on the habit of a penitent. He reviews what h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 29)

29. The “only” way of accounting for the scarcity of even comparatively upright men and women is that, whereas God made man upright, they (men) have, &c. The only account to be “found” of the origin of evil, the great mystery of theology, is that given in Holy Writ (Ge 2:1-3:24). Among man’s “inventions” was the one especially referred to in Ec 7:26, the bitter fruits of which Solomon experienced,…