Ecclesiastes 7:24-26

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²⁴ People cannot understand these things.
    The meaning of life is too difficult for anyone to understand.
²⁵ I decided to study many things
    so that I would become wise.
I wanted to understand the reason why things happen.
I also wanted to know why it is stupid to be wicked,
    and why it is crazy to do foolish things.
²⁶ I learned this:
    Some women are like a trap that catches animals.
Women like that are more dangerous than death.
    They may pretend to love you.
    They may hold you in their arms.
But really their arms are like chains.
They want to catch you,
    as hunters catch animals.
Women like that will easily catch
    a man who has turned away from God.
But a man who pleases God
    will escape from them.