²⁵I turned, I and my heart, to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom and reason, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness; ²⁶and I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is nets and snares, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her. ²⁷See this which I have found, saith the Preacher, searching one by one to find out the reason; ²⁸which my soul yet seeketh, and I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found. ²⁹Only see this which I have found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.

Chapter 8

¹Who is as the wise? and who knoweth the explanation of things? A man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face is changed.

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