Ecclesiastes 7:27-29

New Catholic Bible

As I have added one thing to another in order to draw some conclusion,
²⁸     which my mind has sought repeatedly
    but has not yet discovered,
I have found one man out of a thousand,
    but a woman among them all I have not found.
²⁹ This alone have I found out:
God made human beings straightforward,
    but they often follow devious paths.