ECCLESIASTES 7:22-29

²²for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

²³All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

²⁴That which is is far off, and exceeding deep; who can find it out?

²⁵I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness:

²⁶And I find a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

²⁷Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher; laying one thing to another, to find out the account:

²⁸which my soul still seeketh, but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

²⁹Behold, this only have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.