24 What has been is remote and (A)very [a]mysterious. (B)Who can discover it? 25 I [b](C)directed my [c]mind to know and to investigate, and to seek wisdom and an explanation, and to know the evil of foolishness and the foolishness of insanity. 26 And I discovered as more (D)bitter than death the woman whose heart is (E)snares and nets, whose hands are chains. (F)One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but (G)the sinner will be captured by her.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:24 Lit deep
  2. Ecclesiastes 7:25 Lit turned about
  3. Ecclesiastes 7:25 Lit heart

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