23. All these things I probed in wisdom. I said, “I will acquire wisdom”; but it was far beyond me.
24. What exists is far-reaching; it is deep, very deep: Who can find it out?
25. I turned my heart toward knowledge; I sought and pursued wisdom and its design, and I recognized that wickedness is foolishness and folly is madness.
26. More bitter than death I find the woman who is a hunter’s trap, whose heart is a snare, whose hands are prison bonds. The one who pleases God will be delivered from her, but the one who displeases will be entrapped by her.
27. See, this have I found, says Qoheleth, adding one to one to find the sum.
28. What my soul still seeks and has yet to find is this: “One man out of a thousand have I found, but a woman among them all I have not found.”
29. But this alone I have found: God made humankind honest, but they have pursued many designs.