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Ecclesiastes 7:24-29

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24 (7-25) Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?
24 Whatever exists is far off and most profound— who can discover it?
25 (7-26) I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent:
25 So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.
26 (7-27) And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter’s snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.
26 I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.
27 (7-28) Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account,
27 “Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered: “Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—
28 (7-29) Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.
28 while I was still searching but not finding— I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.
29 (7-30) Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?
29 This only have I found: God created mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes.”
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