²⁵I set my mind to try to seek wisdom and the plan, and to know that wickedness is foolishness and that folly is delusion. ²⁶I myself found that more bitter than death is the woman who is a trap, whose heart is a snare, and whose hands are bonds. The one who pleases God escapes from her, but the sinner is caught by her. ²⁷“Look! I found this,” said the Teacher,^h “while trying to find how the plan fits together. ²⁸What my heart sought, I did not find. Although I found one righteous man among one thousand, I did not find one upright woman among all these. ²⁹Look! This alone I found: God made mankind upright, but they have devised many schemes.”

Wisdom is Valuable

8Who is like the sage?

Who knows the interpretation of a thing?

A man’s wisdom makes his face shine,

and the hardness of his face is changed.

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Footnotes

hHebrew “Qohelet”