Ecclesiastes 7:25-27

New American Standard Bible 1995

²⁵ I ^[a](A)directed my ^[b]mind to know, to investigate and to seek wisdom and an explanation, and to know the evil of folly and the foolishness of madness. ²⁶ And I discovered more ^(B)bitter than death the woman whose heart is ^(C)snares and nets, whose hands are chains. ^(D)One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but ^(E)the sinner will be captured by her.

²⁷ “Behold, I have discovered this,” says the Preacher, “adding one thing to another to find an explanation,