Ecclesiastes 7:23-29

²³All this have I tried by wisdom; I said: 'I will get wisdom'; but it was far from me.

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

²⁵I turned about, and applied my heart to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;

²⁶and I find more bitter than death 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 Koheleth, adding one thing to another, to find out the account;

²⁸which yet my soul sought, but I found not; 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.