Ecclesiastes 7:29
Beholde, sayth the Preacher, this haue I found, seeking one by one to finde the count:
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Genesis 3:6So the woman (seeing that the tree was good for meate, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to get knowledge) tooke of the fruite thereof, and did eate, and gaue also to her husband with her, and he did eate.
Genesis 6:5When the Lord sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,
Genesis 11:4Also they said, Goe to, let vs builde vs a citie and a towre, whose top may reache vnto the heauen, that we may get vs a name, lest we be scattered vpon the whole earth.
Psalms 106:29Thus they prouoked him vnto anger with their owne inuentions, and the plague brake in vpon them.
Jeremiah 2:12O yee heauens, be astonied at this: bee afraid and vtterly confounded, sayeth the Lord.
Ezekiel 22:6Beholde, the princes of Israel euery one in thee was ready to his power, to shed 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 →