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21 Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee. 22 For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast 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 hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it? 25 I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness. 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 escapeth 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 -- they have sought out many devices. Ecclesiastes 7:21-29, Young's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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