Ecclesiastes 7:26-28

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁶ I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent:

²⁷ And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.

²⁸ Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account,