"... When the occurrences of 'find' (מצָָ) in Ecclesiastes are read alongside the text of Proverbs, numerous intertextual connections emerge. Qoheleth (the speaker in Ecclesiastes) in Ecclesiastes 7:24 says, 'What has been is far away (רָחוֹק) and very deep. Who can discover (מָצָא) it?' The same terms are used in Proverbs 31:10: 'A woman of valor, who can find (מָצָא), for her worth is far above (רָחוֹק) jewels,' perhaps indicating an explicit quotation, or more likely, an allusion. Similarly, Qoheleth concludes in Ecclesiastes 7:28 that though he had found one man among a thousand, he had not found a woman. Again in Proverbs 31:10, the rhetorical question asking who can find a woman of wisdom is answered in Proverbs 18:22: the one who finds a wife finds good and obtains favor from the Lord (Yahweh). In Ecclesiastes 7:26, Qoheleth found a woman, likely referring back to folly in 7:25, who is bitter (מָרָה) and whose heart is full of snares and nets. The same term is found in Proverbs 5:4, where the adulteress leads to a bitter (מָרָה) end. In Proverbs 7:15, the strange woman finds the young man and leads him into disaster (7:23). The woman of folly in Proverbs 1-9 is the recurrent embodiment of the allure and calamity of the way that rejects wisdom ..."