ציטירנדיקער פּירוש אויף קהלת 7:29

‘BESHAGAM’ (FOR THAT ALSO) HE IS FLESH. It is as if beshagam were written beshegam with a segol under the shin. And Rashi explained: “This quality is also in him, that he is only flesh, and yet he is not humble before Me. What would he do if he were made of fire or some hard substance.” This explanation has neither rhyme nor reason.
Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra explained that G-d said, “My spirit will not abide in man forever because of this violence and also because man is flesh, and when he reaches a certain age he disintegrates.” Ibn Ezra thus understands the verse as if it said, gam beshehu basar (also because he is flesh). But what need is there for stating this contention when it is known that they were but flesh.⁴⁹⁶Psalms 78:39. and death had been decreed on them, as it says, For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return?⁴⁹⁷Above, 3:19.
The correct interpretation appears to me to be that G-d said: “My spirit shall not abide in man forever because man also is flesh as all flesh that creepeth upon the earth in the forms of fowl and cattle and beast, and it is not fitting that the spirit of G-d be within him.” The purport is to state that G-d made man upright⁴⁹⁸Ecclesiastes 7:29. to be like the ministering angels by virtue of the soul He gave him. But he was drawn after the flesh and corporeal desires; he is like the beasts that perish,⁴⁹⁹Psalms 49:13. and therefore the spirit of G-d will no longer be sheathed in him for he is corporeal and not godly. However, He will prolong for them [this withdrawal of spirit] if they repent. The sense of this verse is thus similar to [the verse in Psalm 78]: So He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

So it was until a crafty man arose.
Iniquitous, endowed with jealous plots,
he devised deeds of wickedness,
enticing and misleading the gracious lady
with his blandishments.
Eschewing aforethought,
she observed not her commandment
but followed his counsel.
Swayed by her eloquence,
by the sweetness of her lips,
her husband followed her lead.
Thus a spirit of impurity
descended upon them,
transformed them,
bound itself to them and to all of their descendants,
as it is written:
“But see, this did I find: God made men righteous but they invent
multitudinous contrivances” [Eccles. 7:29].

The Rock, His work is perfect. This is explained in the way that Solomon said (Ecclesiastes 7:29), God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes. This is to remove from the heart of man evil thoughts, to speak incorrectly about God, claiming that the Craftsman who created him put within him material that has a tendency toward physical desires, and that this corruption came from His hand. As we say by way of excuse, Remember that we are dust (Psalms 103:14), and similarly Job said (10:9), Remember, I beseech You, that You have made me as clay, etc. Perhaps the sinner might come to attribute his guilt to his Creator. On this it says that this is not so, but rather “the Rock [Tzur] who formed man with wisdom, His work is perfect.” For “there is no artist [tzayar] like our God” (Berakhot 10a), and all His work is perfect without deficiency. The proof of this is that all His ways are just, and if man were deficient because of his creation, then he would not have free will, as he would be compelled in his actions, and it would not be appropriate to bring him to judgment for his deeds. Yet you acknowledge that all of God’s ways are just and far be it from the Almighty to do injustice. For God is faithful, to reward the righteous, and without injustice, to repay even the wicked. Just as you acknowledge that He justly gives good reward to those who do His will, so too He justly punishes the wicked because He is righteous and upright, and He made man upright in every way, but they have sought out many schemes. For corruption came from their side and not from His side, blessed be He. This is what it means by He has corrupted himself, which Onkelos translates as “they have corrupted themselves, it is not His,” because the corruption depends on them due to their poor choices, and not on Him, for one cannot attribute the corruption to Him at all. The defect is not of His children, meaning that it is not as they thought, to attribute their defect to being His children, saying to the Craftsman who made me a physical being, This came to me from Your hand. Rather, their main defect is from themselves, in that they are a perverse and crooked generation. And they have no defect or deficiency from the aspect of being His children, blessed be He, for the Rock made them in perfection, without deficiency, but they chose for themselves corrupt ways that God did not command. This also fits well with Rashi’s interpretation, who explains himself/Himself as referring to the Holy One, blessed be He, meaning that this corruption should be attributed to Him, blessed be He — no, this is not so, but rather they were His children, and the corruption, their blemish, is their own blemish.