23. All this I have proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.
24. That which has been is far off and that which is exceeding deep, who can find it out?
25. I applied my heart to know and to search and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the madness of error;
26. and I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are bonds; whosoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be held prisoner in her.
27. Behold, this I have found, saith the preacher, weighing things one by one to find out the answer,
28. which my soul yet seeks, but I find not: one man among a thousand I have found, but a woman among all those I have not found.