25 (A)I applied my heart to know,
To search and seek out wisdom and the reason of things,
To know the wickedness of folly,
Even of foolishness and madness.
26 (B)And I find more bitter than death
The woman whose heart is snares and nets,
Whose hands are fetters.
[a]He who pleases God shall escape from her,
But the sinner shall be trapped by her.

27 “Here is what I have found,” says (C)the Preacher,
Adding one thing to the other to find out the reason,

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:26 Lit. He who is good before God

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