20 Certainly, there is no one so righteous on earth that he always does what is good and never sins.
21 Don’t take everything that people say to heart, or you may hear your own servant cursing you.
22 Your conscience knows that you have cursed others many times.
23 I used wisdom to test all of this. I said, “I want to be wise, but it is out of my reach.”
24 Whatever wisdom may be, it is out of reach. It is deep, very deep. Who can find out what it is?
25 I turned my attention to study, to explore, and to seek out wisdom and the reason for things. I learned that wickedness is stupid and foolishness is madness.
26 I find that a woman whose thoughts are ⌊like⌋ traps and snares is more bitter than death itself. Even her hands are ⌊like⌋ chains. Whoever pleases God will escape her, but she will catch whoever continues to sin.