לְבַד֙ רְאֵה־זֶ֣ה מָצָ֔אתִי אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשָׂ֧ה הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־הָאָדָ֖ם יָשָׁ֑ר וְהֵ֥מָּה בִקְשׁ֖וּ חִשְּׁבֹנ֥וֹת רַבִּֽים׃
זע, דאָס אַלײן האָב איך אױסגעפֿונען, אַז גאָט האָט באַשאַפֿן דעם מענטשן גלײַך, אָבער זײ האָבן געזוכט פֿיל אױסטראַכטענישן.
Tze'enah Ure'enah
“Only” [7:29]. However, I have found that evil comes from women. The Holy One created Adam properly complete and pious and when Eve, his wife, came to Adam, she caused him to commit transgressions.107Rashi, Ecclesiastes, 7:29.
Rashi
See, this only have I found. And which brought to the world a stumbling block through her.
Kohelet Rabbah
“But, see, this I have found: God made man upright, but they have sought many schemes” (Ecclesiastes 7:29).
“But, see, this I have found: God made man upright” – he was upright, as it is stated: “God made man upright,” and it is written: “Behold, man has become like one of us” (Genesis 3:22) – like one of the ministering angels. When they became two, “but they have sought many schemes.”
“But, see, this I have found: God made man upright” – he was upright, as it is stated: “God made man upright,” and it is written: “Behold, man has become like one of us” (Genesis 3:22) – like one of the ministering angels. When they became two, “but they have sought many schemes.”
Rashi
That [God] made. The Holy One, Blessed Is He [created] Adam perfectly upright.69As God stated in Bereishis 3:22 regarding Adam, “Behold, the man has become like one of us to know [what is] good and [what is] evil.”
Rashi
But they. When his wife Chavah was paired up with him,70Rashi is explaining the reason for the change to plural [“they”] when the subject is singular [“man”]. and they became two and were called “they.”
Rashi
Sought out many stratagems. Plans and designs of sin. So is it expounded in the Midrash.