18. [It is] good that thou dost lay hold on this, and also, from that withdrawest not thy hand, for whoso is fearing God goeth out with them all.
19. The wisdom giveth strength to a wise man, more than wealth the rulers who have been in a city.
20. Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.
21. Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee.
22. For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.
23. All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, `I am wise,' and it [is] far from me.
24. Far off [is] that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?
25. I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.
26. And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart [is] nets and snares, her hands [are] bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.
27. See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason
28. (that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found.
29. See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they--they have sought out many devices.