22Your heart has knowledge how frequently others have been cursed by you.
23All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.
24Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?
25I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.
26And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
27Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,
28For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen.
