Ecclesiastes 7:21-29 ▼

21 Don’t pay attention to everything people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you,

22 for you know that many times you yourself have cursed others.

23 I have tested all this by wisdom. I resolved, “I will be wise,” but it was beyond me.

24 What exists is beyond reach and very deep. Who can discover it?

25 I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and seek wisdom and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.

26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, 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,

28 which my soul continually searches for but does not find: among a thousand people I have found one true man, but among all these I have not found a true woman.

29 Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright, but they pursued many schemes.”