Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
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Gill's Exposition
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright,.... The first man Adam, as the Targum and Jarchi interpret it; and not Adam only, but Eve also with him; for these were both made by the…
Barnes' Notes
God hath made - Rather, God made. A definite allusion to the original state of man: in which he was exempt from vanity.
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;…
Cambridge Bible
They have sought out many inventions The Hebrew word implies an ingenuity exercised mainly for evil but takes within its range, as in 2Ch 26:15, the varied acts of life which are in themselves neither…
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