Ecclesiastes 7:25-27
21st Century King James Version
25 I applied mine heart to know and to search and to seek out wisdom and the reason for things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.
26 And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are as bonds. Whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.
27 “Behold, this have I found,” saith the Preacher, “counting one by one to find out the account,
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Ecclesiastes 7:25-27
New International Version
25 So I turned my mind to understand,
to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things(A)
and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
and the madness of folly.(B)
26 I find more bitter than death
the woman who is a snare,(C)
whose heart is a trap
and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her,
but the sinner she will ensnare.(D)
27 “Look,” says the Teacher,[a](E) “this is what I have discovered:
“Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 7:27 Or the leader of the assembly
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