Ecclesiastes 7:25-27

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²⁵ I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness.^{(A) 26} I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.^{(B) 27} See, this is what I found, says the Teacher, adding one thing to another to find the sum,^(C)