22. But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee.
23. For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil of others.
24. I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise: and it departed farther from me,
25. Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?
26. I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent:
27. And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.
28. Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account,