Ecclesiastes 7:23-29

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23 I tested all this with wisdom, and I said, “I will be wise,” ^abut it was far from me. 24 What has been is far away and ^aexceedingly deep. ^bWho can find it? 25 I ^aturned my heart to know, to explore, and to seek wisdom and an explanation, and to know the wickedness of foolishness and the simpleminded folly of madness. 26 And I found more ^abitter than death the woman whose heart is ^bsnares and nets, whose hands are chains. ^cOne who is good before God will escape from her, but ^dthe sinner will be captured by her.
27 “See, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “adding one thing to another to find an explanation, 28 which my soul still seeks but has not found. I have found one man out of a thousand, but I have not found a ^awoman among all these. 29 See, I have found only this, that ^aGod made men upright, but they have sought out many devices.”