Ecclesiastes 7:24-29 (Good News Translation)
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24
How can anyone discover what life means? It is too deep for us, too hard to understand.
25
But I devoted myself to knowledge and study; I was determined to find wisdom and the answers to my questions, and to learn how wicked and foolish stupidity is.
26
I found something more bitter than death - the woman who is like a trap. The love she offers you will catch you like a net, and her arms around you will hold you like a chain. A man who pleases God can get away, but she will catch the sinner.
27
Yes, said the Philosopher, I found this out little by little while I was looking for answers.
28
I have looked for other answers but have found none. I found one man in a thousand that I could respect, but not one woman.
29
This is all that I have learned: God made us plain and simple, but we have made ourselves very complicated.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission. (The Good News Translation - The Holy Bible Online)
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