|
21 Don't take everything that people say to heart, or you may hear your own servant cursing you. 22 Your conscience knows that you have cursed others many times. 23 I used wisdom to test all of this. I said, |I want to be wise, but it is out of my reach.| 24 Whatever wisdom may be, it is out of reach. It is deep, very deep. Who can find out what it is? 25 I turned my attention to study, to explore, and to seek out wisdom and the reason for things. I learned that wickedness is stupid and foolishness is madness. 26 I find that a woman whose thoughts are [like] traps and snares is more bitter than death itself. Even her hands are [like] chains. Whoever pleases God will escape her, but she will catch whoever continues to sin. 27 The spokesman said, |This is what I've found: I added one thing to another in order to find a reason for things. 28 I am still seeking a reason for things, but have not found any. I found one man out of a thousand who had it, but out of all these I didn't find one woman. 29 I have found only this: God made people decent, but they looked for many ways [to avoid being decent].| Ecclesiastes 7:21-29, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
|
