Ecclesiastes 7:23-28

²³All this have I proven by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but it was more than I could be.

²⁴Wisdom is far off and very deep. Who can find it?

²⁵I turned my heart to learn and examine and seek wisdom and the explanations of reality, and to understand that evil is stupid and that folly is madness.

²⁶I found that more bitter than death is any woman whose heart is full of snares and nets, and whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God will escape from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

²⁷“Consider what I have discovered,” says the Teacher. “I have been adding one discovery to another in order to find an explanation of reality.

²⁸This is what I am still looking for, but I have not found it. I did find one righteous man among a thousand, but a woman among all those I did not find.