Ecclesiastes 7:27-29

Revised Geneva Translation

²⁷ I have applied my heart to know and to inquire and to search wisdom and reason and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness of madness.

²⁸ And I find the woman whose heart is as nets and snares, and her hands as bands, more bitter than death. He who is good before God shall be delivered from her. But the sinner shall be taken by her.

²⁹ “Behold,” says the preacher, “this I have found, adding one by one to find the answer.