28 And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is as nets and snares, and her hands as bands: he that is good before God, shall be delivered from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

29 Behold, saith the Preacher, this have I found, seeking one by one to [a]find the count:

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:29 That is, to come to a conclusion.

28     while I was still searching
    but not finding—
I found one upright man among a thousand,
    but not one upright woman(A) among them all.
29 This only have I found:
    God created mankind upright,
    but they have gone in search of many schemes.”

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