“Look,” said Kohelet, “I have discovered this while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things—
I, Kohelet, am king over Israel in Jerusalem.
I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap, and whose hands are chains. He who pleases God will escape her, but a sinner will be captured by her.
which my soul is still seeking, but not finding—I found one upright man among a thousand, but one upright woman among them all I have not found.