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Ecclesiastes 7:23-26

Ecclesiastes 7:23-26 TLV

All this I have tested with wisdom and I said, “I determined to be wise”—but it was far from me. Whatever it may be, it is far off and very profound—who can fathom it? 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. 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.