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25 So I turned my heart to understand, to search and seek out wisdom and an explanation of things and to know the stupidity of wickedness and 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.
He who pleases God will escape her,
    but a sinner will be captured by her.

27 “Look,” said Kohelet, “I have discovered this while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things—

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