22. For also thine own heart knoweth that oftentimes thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
23. All this have I tried by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
24. Whatever hath been, is far off, and exceeding deep: who will find it out?
25. I turned, I and my heart, to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom and reason, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;
26. and I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is nets and snares, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.
27. See this which I have found, saith the Preacher, searching one by one to find out the reason;
28. which my soul yet seeketh, and I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found.
29. Only see this which I have found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.