26. I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
27. “Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find out the scheme;
28. which my soul still seeks; but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand; but I have not found a woman among all those.
29. Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”