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That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
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I applied[a] mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek outwisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
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And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth*God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
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Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
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Which yet my soulseeketh, but I find not: oneman among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
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Lo, this only have I found, that God hath mademanupright; but they have sought outmanyinventions.