24 I have tested everything in wisdom. I have said: 'I will be wise.' And wisdom withdrew farther from me,
25 so much more than it was before. Wisdom is very profound, so who shall reveal her?
26 I have examined all things in my soul, so that I may know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason, and so that I may recognize the impiety of the foolish, and the error of the imprudent.
27 And I have discovered a woman more bitter than death: she who is like the snare of a hunter, and whose heart is like a net, and whose hands are like chains. Whoever pleases God shall flee from her. But whoever is a sinner shall be seized by her.
28 Behold, Ecclesiastes said, I have discovered these things, one after another, in order that I might discover the explanation
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