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26 I find more bitter than death
    the woman whose heart is snares
and nets,
    and whose hands are fetters.
He who pleases God escapes her,
    but the sinner is taken by her.

27 “See, this is what I found,” says the Preacher,

“adding one thing to another to find the sum,
28     which my soul still seeks
    but I do not find:
One man among a thousand I have found,
    but a woman among all these I have not found.

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