See, this is what I found, says the Teacher, adding one thing to another to find the sum,
I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.
which my mind 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.