Ecclesiastes 7
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Ecclesiastes 7:26-28

26I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.

27“Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered: “Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—

28while I was still searching but not finding— I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.

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