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Ecclesiastes 7:25-27
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25 So I turned my mind to understand,
    to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things
and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
    and the madness of folly.

26 I find more bitter than death
    the woman who is a snare,
whose heart is a trap
    and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her,
    but the sinner she will ensnare.

27 ‘Look,’ says the Teacher,[a] ‘this is what I have discovered:

‘Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things –

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  1. Ecclesiastes 7:27 Or the leader of the assembly
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