²⁵I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness. ²⁶And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is nets and snares, her hands are bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her. ²⁷See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason ²⁸(that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found. ²⁹See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they—they have sought out many devices.

Chapter 8

¹Who is as the wise? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? The wisdom of man causeth his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

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