Ecclesiastes 7:25-27

Christian Standard Bible

²⁵ I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and examine wisdom^(A) and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness. ²⁶ And I find more bitter than death^(B) the woman who is a trap:^(C) her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her. ²⁷ “Look,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find out the explanation,