^{26 Ref} And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

^{27 Ref} Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,

^{28 Ref} For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen.

^{29 Ref} This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.