21. Do not give heed to everything people say,lest you hear your servant cursing you.
22. Your heart knowsthat many times you have spoken a curse against others.
23. All this I have tested by wisdom. I said,“I will be wise,”but it was far from me.
24. That which is, is far off,and exceedingly deep.Who can find it out?
25. And I turned my heart to know,and seek and search out wisdom in how things areand to experience wicked folly,even foolishness and madness.
26. I find more bitter than deaththe woman whose heart is snaresand nets,and whose hands are fetters.He who pleases God escapes her,but the sinner is taken by her.