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For your heart knows that you also have cursed others many times.
23
All this I have tested with wisdom. I said, "I will be wise!" but {it was beyond my grasp}.
24
{Whatever is--it is far beyond comprehension}. Who can discover it?
25
I set my mind to try to seek wisdom and the plan, and to know that wickedness [is] foolishness and that folly [is] delusion.
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I myself found [that] more bitter than death [is] the woman who [is] a trap, whose heart [is] a snare, and whose hands [are] bonds. The one who pleases God escapes from her, but the sinner is caught by her.
Footnotes 1
[a].
Literally "That which is--it [is] far and deep deep"
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