Ecclesiastes 7:26-28

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²⁶ I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.^{(A) 27} See, this is what I found, says the Teacher, adding one thing to another to find the sum,^{(B) 28} which my mind has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.