Of the Battle of Sexes

So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.

I find more bitter than death
the woman who is a snare,
whose heart is a trap
and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her,
but the sinner she will ensnare.

“Look,” says the Teacher,
“this is what I have discovered:
'Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things —

while I was still searching
but not finding —
I found one upright man among a thousand,
but not one upright woman among them all.

This only have I found:
God made mankind upright,
but men have gone in search of many schemes.” ~ Ecclesiastes 7.25-29 NIV

Grrr.
A woman needs a man
like a fish needs a bicycle.
Grrr.
Still...
A leader cannot be tethered to
an over-possessive or manipulative
partner.
There’s truth behind the idea
behind every leader there’s a good
spouse,
even if he’s a husband.

God, help me understand
I tend to reach the level of those around me.
Lead me to associate with great people
and to listen to an awesome God.

Barbara B. Rollins A Time for Verse - Poetic Ponderings on Ecclesiastes (566-577)