Ecclesiastes 7:26-28

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁶ And I find more bitter than death^(A) the woman who is a trap:^(B) her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her. ²⁷ ‘Look,’ says the Teacher, ‘I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find out the explanation, ²⁸ which my soul continually searches for but does not find: I found one person in a thousand, but none of those was a woman.^(C)