Ecclesiastes 7:26

Bishops' Bible (1568)

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.

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  • 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.

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  • Eccl 7:27-28
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    27Beholde (saith the preacher) this haue I diligently searched out and proued: One thing must be considered with another, that a man may come by knowledge,

    28which as yet I seeke, and finde it not. Among a thousande men I haue founde one: but not one woman among all.

  • Prov 5:3-6
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    3For the lippes of a straunge woman are a dropping hony combe, and her throte is more glistering then oyle:

    4But at the laste she is as bitter as wormewood, and as sharpe as a two edged sworde.

    5Her feete go downe vnto death, and her steppes pearce thorowe vnto hell.

    6Perchaunce thou wylt ponder the path of her lyfe: so vnstedfast are her wayes that thou canst not know them.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24That they may kepe thee from the euyll woman, and from the flattering tongue of the straunge woman.

    25Lust not after her beautie in thyne heart, lest thou be taken with her fayre lokes.

    26By an harlot a man is brought to beg his bread, and a woman wyll hunte for the pretious life of man.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25Let not thyne heart wander in her wayes, and be not thou deceaued in her pathes.

    26For many one hath she wounded and cast downe, yea many a strong man hath ben slaine by the meanes of her.

    27Her house is the way vnto hell, and bryng men downe into the chaumbers of death.

  • Prov 7:10-13
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    75%

    10And behold there met hym a woman with open tokens of an harlot, onlye her heart was hid:

    11She was full of loude wordes and redye to dallie, whose feete coulde not abide in the house:

    12Nowe is she without, nowe in the streates, and lyeth in wayte at euery corner.

    13She caught hym and kissed him, and was not ashamed, saying:

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25I applied my minde also vnto knowledge, and to seeke and searche out science, wysdome, and vnderstanding, to knowe the foolishnesse of the vngodly, and the errour of doting fooles.

  • Prov 2:16-19
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    16That thou mayest be deliuered also from the straunge woman, and from her that is not thine owne, which geueth sweete wordes,

    17Forsaketh the husbande of her youth, & forgetteth the couenaunt of her God.

    18For her house is enclined vnto death, and her pathes vnto hell.

    19All they that go in vnto her, come not agayne, neither take they holde of the way of lyfe.

  • Prov 7:21-23
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    75%

    21Thus with many sweete wordes she ouercame him, and with her flattering lippes she entised hym.

    22Sodainly 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,

    23So 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.

  • Prov 7:5
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    5That they may kepe thee from the straunge woman, and from the forraine woman which geueth sweete wordes.

  • Prov 22:14
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    14The mouth of straunge women is a deepe pit: wherein he falleth that the Lorde is angrye withall.

  • Prov 23:27-28
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    73%

    27For an whore is a deepe graue, and a straunge woman is a narowe pit.

    28She lyeth in wayte as for a pray, and increaseth the transgressours amongst men.

  • Prov 3:17-18
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    17Her wayes are pleasaunt wayes, and all her pathes are peaceable.

    18She is a tree of lyfe to them that lay holde vpon her: and blessed is he that kepeth her fast.

  • Prov 23:33
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    33Thyne eyes shall beholde straunge women, and thyne heart shall vtter lewde thinges:

  • Prov 5:20
    72%

    20Why wylt thou my sonne haue pleasure in a straunge woman, and embrace the bosome of a straunger?

  • Prov 11:22
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    22A faire woman without discrete maners, is lyke a ryng of golde in a swines snoute.

  • Prov 8:35
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    35For whoso findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtaine fauour of the Lorde.

  • Prov 21:19
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    19It is better to dwell in the wyldernesse, then with a chydyng and an angrye woman.

  • Prov 7:8
    71%

    8Goyng ouer the streate by the corner in the way towarde her house

  • Prov 31:30-31
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    71%

    30As for fauour it is deceiptfull, & beautie is a vayne thyng: but a woman that feareth the Lorde, shalbe praysed.

    31Geue her of the fruite of her handes: and let her owne workes prayse her in the gates.

  • Prov 27:16
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    16He that stilleth her, stilleth the winde, and stoppeth the smell of the oyntment in his hande.

  • Prov 30:23
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    23A spiteful woman when she is maried, and an handmayde that is heire to her maistresse.

  • Ezek 16:32
    71%

    32But as a wyfe that breaketh wedlocke, and taketh other in steede of her husbande.

  • Prov 31:10
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    10Who so fyndeth an honest faythfull woman, she is much more worth then pearles.

  • Prov 18:22
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    22Who so findeth a wyfe, findeth a good thing, and receaueth fauour of the Lorde.

  • Job 31:9
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    9If my heart haue ben deceaued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at my neyghbours doore:

  • Hos 2:7
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    7And though she runne after her louers, yet shall she not ouertake them: she shall seeke them, but not finde them. Then shall she say, I wyll go and returne to my first husbande: for at that tyme it was better with me then nowe.

  • Prov 4:6
    70%

    6Forsake her not, and she shall preserue thee, loue her, and she shall kepe thee.

  • Prov 5:8
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    8Kepe thy way farre from her, & come not nigh the doores of her house.

  • Prov 6:32
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    32But whoso committeth adultrie with a woman, lacketh vnderstanding: and he that doth it, destroyeth his owne soule.

  • 1 Tim 5:6
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    6But she that liueth in pleasure, is dead beyng alyue.

  • Prov 21:9
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    9It is better to dwel in a corner on the house toppe, then with a brawling woman in a wide house.