26I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.
27“Look,” says the Teacher, Or the leader of the assembly “this is what I have discovered: “Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—
28while I was still searching but not finding— I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all. 29This only have I found: God created mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes.”