25 (A)I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness. 26 And I find something more (B)bitter than death: (C)the woman whose heart is (D)snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but (E)the sinner is taken by her.

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