21 Also do not take to heart all the words that are spoken lest thou hear thy slave speak evil of thee:
22 For thine own heart knows that thou thyself likewise hast spoken evil of others many times.
23 All this I have proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.
24 That which has been is far off and that which is exceeding deep, who can find it out?
25 I applied my heart to know and to search and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the madness of error;
26 and I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are bonds; whosoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be held prisoner in her.
27 Behold, this I have found, saith the preacher, weighing things one by one to find out the answer,