Ecclesiastes 7:27-29

New International Version - UK

²⁷‘Look,’ says the Teacher,^[a] ‘this is what I have discovered:

‘Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things –
²⁸    while I was still searching
    but not finding –
I found one upright man among a thousand,
    but not one upright woman among them all.
²⁹This only have I found:
    God created mankind upright,
    but they have gone in search of many schemes.’