Ecclesiastes 7:21-29 ▼

21 Also to all the words that they speak do not give your heart, that you do not hear your servant reviling you.

22 For many times also has your heart known that you yourself have also reviled others.

23 All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, “I am wise,” and it [is] far from me.

24 Far off [is] that which has been, and deep, deep, who finds it?

25 I have turned around, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and the madness of foolishness.

26 And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart [is] nets and snares, her hands [are] bands; the good before God escapes from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

27 See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason

28 (that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), || One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found.

29 See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they have sought out many inventions.