Ecclesiastes 7:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
  • Prov 5:3-5 : 3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil; 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword; 5 Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
  • Prov 2:18-19 : 18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades: 19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
  • Judg 16:18-21 : 18 And when Delilah saw that he had let her see into his heart, she sent word to the chiefs of the Philistines saying, Come up this time, for he has let out all his heart to me. Then the chiefs of the Philistines came to her, with the money in their hands. 19 And she made him go to sleep on her knees; and she sent for a man and had his seven twists of hair cut off; and while it was being done he became feeble and his strength went from him. 20 Then she said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And awaking from his sleep, he said, I will go out as at other times, shaking myself free. But he was not conscious that the Lord had gone from him. 21 So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.
  • Prov 23:27-28 : 27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole. 28 Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
  • Prov 7:21-27 : 21 With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips. 22 The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord; 23 Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side. 24 So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth; 25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps. 26 For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army. 27 Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 7:27-28
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    27 Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,

    28 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.

  • Prov 5:3-6
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    3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

    4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

    5 Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

    6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

    25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

    26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

    26 For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

    27 Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

  • Prov 7:10-13
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    10 And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

    11 She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

    12 Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

    13 So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25 I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

  • Prov 2:16-19
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    16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

    17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

    18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

    19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

  • Prov 7:21-23
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    21 With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

    22 The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

    23 Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

  • Prov 7:5
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    5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

  • Prov 22:14
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    14 The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

  • Prov 23:27-28
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    27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

    28 Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.

  • Prov 3:17-18
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    17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

    18 She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

  • Prov 23:33
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    33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

  • Prov 5:20
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    20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

  • Prov 11:22
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    22 Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense.

  • Prov 8:35
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    35 For whoever gets me gets life, and grace from the Lord will come to him.

  • Prov 21:19
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    19 It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.

  • Prov 7:8
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    8 Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

  • Prov 31:30-31
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    30 Fair looks are a deceit, and a beautiful form is of no value; but a woman who has the fear of the Lord is to be praised.

    31 Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.

  • Prov 27:16
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    16 He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.

  • Prov 30:23
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    23 A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

  • Prov 31:10
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    10 Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.

  • Prov 18:22
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    22 Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

  • Job 31:9
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    9 If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

  • Hos 2:7
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    7 And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.

  • Prov 4:6
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    6 Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.

  • Prov 5:8
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    8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

  • Prov 6:32
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    32 He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

  • 1 Tim 5:6
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    6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.

  • Prov 21:9
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    9 It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.