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21 Also take no heed of all words that are spoken by the wicked; neither listen to your servant when he curses you; 22 For your heart knows that you yourself have oftentimes cursed others. 23 I have tried all these things by wisdom; I said, I will be wise; but wisdom was far from me. 24 Yea, wisdom was far off; it also had depth beyond depth; who can find it out? 25 I went around and applied my heart to know and to visit and to search for wisdom and reason and to know the wickedness of the fool, even folly and transgression. 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands bind him who is good; he who is good in the presence of God shall escape from her; but he who sins shall be caught by her. 27 Behold, I have found this, says the Preacher, weighing one thing against another to find out the purposes, 28 And again my soul sought but I found not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all these I have not found. 29 But behold, this thing I have found, that God has made men upright; but they have sought out many devices. Ecclesiastes 7:21-29, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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