Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things—
I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.
And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.
which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.