23All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
24That which is, is far off and exceeding deep; who can find it out?
25I turned about, and my heart [was set] to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason [of things], and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.
26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
27Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, [laying] one thing to another, to find out the account;
28which my soul still seeketh, but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
29Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
