Ecclesiastes 7:29
I have discovered only this: That God created humanity upright, but they have gone away looking for many difficulties.”
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Genesis 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. Then she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 6:5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of mankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.
Genesis 11:4They said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top will reach to the sky, and let us make a name for ourselves. If we do not, we will be scattered across the surface of the whole earth.”
Psalms 106:29They provoked him to anger with their actions, 1 and a plague broke out among them. 1
Jeremiah 2:12Shudder, heavens, because of this! Be shocked and horrified—this is Yahweh's declaration. 1
Ezekiel 22:6Behold! The rulers of Israel, each one by his own power, have come to you to pour out blood.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:24-29
The Evil of Sin. 23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. 24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? 25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by… Read the whole commentary →