Verse 26

And I founde that a woman is bitterer then death, the whiche hath cast abrode her heart as a net that men fishe with, and her handes are chaynes: Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner wyll be taken with her.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of straunge women is a deepe pit: wherein he falleth that the Lorde is angrye withall.
  • Prov 5:3-5 : 3 For the lippes of a straunge woman are a dropping hony combe, and her throte is more glistering then oyle: 4 But at the laste she is as bitter as wormewood, and as sharpe as a two edged sworde. 5 Her feete go downe vnto death, and her steppes pearce thorowe vnto hell.
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 That thou mayest be deliuered also from the straunge woman, and from her that is not thine owne, which geueth sweete wordes,
  • Prov 2:18-19 : 18 For her house is enclined vnto death, and her pathes vnto hell. 19 All they that go in vnto her, come not agayne, neither take they holde of the way of lyfe.
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 And why? God geueth to the man that is good before hym, wisdome, vnderstandyng, and gladnesse: but vnto the sinner he geueth weerinesse, that he may gather and heape together the thyng that afterwarde shalbe geuen vnto hym whom it pleaseth God: This is nowe a vayne thyng, yea a very disquietnesse and vexation of mynde.
  • Judg 16:18-21 : 18 And when Dalila sawe that he had tolde her all his heart, she sent and called for the lordes of the Philistines, saying: Come vp yet this once, for he hath shewed me all his hearte. Then ye lordes of the Philistines came vp vnto her, and brought the money in their handes. 19 And she made hym sleepe vpon her knees, and she sent for a man, and he dyd shaue of the seuen lockes of his head, & began to vexe him, and his strength was gone from him. 20 And she sayde, The Philistines be vp in thee Samson. And he awoke out of his sleepe, and sayde: I will go out now as at other tymes before, & shake my selfe. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from hym. 21 But the Philistines toke hym, and put out his eyes, and brought him downe to Azzah, and bounde him with fetters of brasse: and he dyd grynde in the prison house.
  • Prov 23:27-28 : 27 For an whore is a deepe graue, and a straunge woman is a narowe pit. 28 She lyeth in wayte as for a pray, and increaseth the transgressours amongst men.
  • Prov 7:21-27 : 21 Thus with many sweete wordes she ouercame him, and with her flattering lippes she entised hym. 22 Sodainly he folowed her, as it were an oxe led to the slaughter, and lyke as it were a foole that laugheth when he goeth to the stockes to be punished, 23 So long tyll she had wounded his lyuer with her dart: lyke as if a byrde hasted to the snare, not knowing that the perill of his life lieth thervpon. 24 Heare me now therfore O my chylde, and marke the wordes of my mouth: 25 Let not thyne heart wander in her wayes, and be not thou deceaued in her pathes. 26 For many one hath she wounded and cast downe, yea many a strong man hath ben slaine by the meanes of her. 27 Her house is the way vnto hell, and bryng men downe into the chaumbers of death.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 And he doth not consider that they are but dead whiche be there, and that her ghestes are in the deepe of hell.