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25 And I turned my heart to know,
    and seek and search out wisdom in how things are
and to experience wicked folly,
    even foolishness and madness.

26 I find more bitter than death
    the woman whose heart is snares
and nets,
    and whose hands are fetters.
He who pleases God escapes her,
    but the sinner is taken by her.

27 “See, this is what I found,” says the Preacher,

“adding one thing to another to find the sum,

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