Ecc 7:23-29 | ESV | STEP | All this I have tested by wisdom . I said , I will be wise , but it was far from me.

Ecclesiastes 7:23-29

23 All this I have tested by wisdom. ^aI said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me. 24 That which has been is far off, and ^bdeep, very deep; ^cwho can find it out?

25 ^dI turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness. 26 And I find something more ^ebitter than death: ^fthe woman whose heart is ^gsnares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but ^hthe sinner is taken by her. 27 Behold, this is what I found, says ⁱthe Preacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things— 28 which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. ^jOne man among a thousand I found, but ^ka woman among all these I have not found. 29 See, this alone I found, that ^lGod made man upright, but ^mthey have sought out many schemes.