Ecclesiastes 7:25-27

New American Standard Bible

²⁵ I ^[a](A)directed my ^[b]mind to know and to investigate, and to seek wisdom and an explanation, and to know the evil of foolishness and the foolishness of insanity. ²⁶ And I discovered as more ^(B)bitter than death the woman whose heart is ^(C)snares and nets, whose hands are chains. ^(D)One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but ^(E)the sinner will be captured by her.

²⁷ “Behold, I have discovered this,” says the Preacher, “by adding one thing to another to find an explanation,