Ecclesiastes 7:20-27

²⁰Forsooth no just or rightwise man there is in the earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

²¹But also give thou not thine heart to all words, that be said; lest peradventure thou hear thy servant cursing thee;

²²for thy conscience knoweth, that also thou hast cursed oft other men.

²³I assayed all things in wisdom; I said, I shall be made wise, and it went away further from me,

²⁴much more than it was; and the depth is low, who shall find it?

²⁵I compassed all things with my soul, to know, and to behold, and seek wisdom, and reason, and to know the wickedness of a fool, and the error of unprudent men.

²⁶And I found a woman bitterer than death, the which is the snare of hunters, and her heart is a net, and her hands be bonds; he that pleaseth God shall escape her, but he that is a sinner, shall be taken of her.

²⁷Lo! I found this, said Ecclesiastes, one and other, that I should find reason,