Ecclesiastes 7:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Lo, this only have I found Though I could not find out all the streams of wickedness, and their infinite windings and turnings, yet I have discovered the fountain of it, original sin, and the corruption of nature, which is both in men and women; that God made our first parents, Adam and Eve, upright Hebrew, right: without any imperfection or corruption, conformable to his nature and will, after his own likeness: but they Our first parents, and after them their posterity; have sought out many inventions Were not contented with their present state, but studied new ways of making themselves more wise and happy than God had made them. And we, their wretched children, are still prone to forsake the certain rule of God's word, and the true way to happiness, and to seek new methods of attaining it.

Ecclesiastes 7:29

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