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21 Take no heede vnto euery word that is spoken, lest thou heare thy seruaunt curse thee: 22 (7:21) for thyne owne heart knoweth that thou thy self also hast ofttimes spoken euyll by other men. 23 (7:22) All these thinges haue I proued in wysdome, for I thought to be wyse, but she went farther from me then she was before: 24 (7:22) yea and so deepe, that I might not reache vnto her. 25 (7:23) I applied my minde also vnto knowledge, and to seeke and searche out science, wysdome, and vnderstanding, to knowe the foolishnesse of the vngodly, and the errour of doting fooles. 26 (7:24) And I founde that a woman is bitterer then death, the whiche hath cast abrode her heart as a net that men fishe with, and her handes are chaynes: Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner wyll be taken with her. 27 (7:25) Beholde (saith the preacher) this haue I diligently searched out and proued: One thing must be considered with another, that a man may come by knowledge, 28 (7:25) which as yet I seeke, and finde it not. (7:26) Among a thousande men I haue founde one: but not one woman among all. 29 (7:27) Lo this onlye haue I founde, that God made man iust and right: but they sought many inuentions. Ecclesiastes 7:21-29, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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