Ecclesiastes 7:26

Coverdale Bible (1535)

And I founde, that a woman is bytterer then death: for she is a very angle, hir hert is a nett, and hir handes are cheynes. Who so pleaseth God shal escape from her, but the synner will be taken wt her.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an harlot is a depe pytt, wherin he falleth that ye LORDE is angrie withall.
  • Prov 5:3-5 : 3 For the lippes of an harlot are a droppinge hony combe, and hir throte is softer then oyle. 4 But at ye last she is as bitter as wormwod, and as sharpe as a two edged swerde. 5 Hir fete go downe vnto death, and hir steppes pearse thorow vnto hell.
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 That thou mayest be delyuered also from the straunge woman, and from her that is not thine owne: which geueth swete wordes,
  • Prov 2:18-19 : 18 For hir house is enclyned vnto death, and hir pathes vnto hell. 19 All they that go in vnto her, come not agayne, nether take they holde of the waye of life.
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 he geueth vnto ma, what it pleaseth him: whether it be wy?dome. vnderstondinge, or gladnesse. But vnto the synner he geueth weerynes and sorow, that he maye gather and heape together ye thinge, yt afterwarde shalbe geuen vnto him whom it pleaseth God. This is now a vayne thinge, yee a very disquietnesse and vexacio of mynde.
  • Judg 16:18-21 : 18 Now whan Dalila sawe that he had opened all his hert vnto her, she sent & called for the prynces of the Philistynes, & sayde: Come yet once vp, for he hath opened his whole hert vnto me. The came the prynces of the Philistynes vp vnto her, & broughte the money wt them in their handes. 19 And she made him to slepe vpon hir lappe, & called one which shoue of the seue hayrie lockes of his heade. And she beganne to vexe him. The was his strength departed fro him. 20 And she sayde vnto him: The Philistynes vpon the Samson. Now wha he awoke out of his slepe, he thoughte: I wil go forth as I haue done aforetyme, & ease my selfe, & knewe not yt the LORDE was departed from him. 21 But the Philistynes toke him, & put out his eyes, and broughte him downe to Gasa, & bounde him wt fetters, and made him to grynde in the preson.
  • Prov 23:27-28 : 27 For an whore is a depe graue, and an harlot is a narow pytt. 28 She lurketh like a thefe, and those that be not awarre she brigeth vnto her.
  • Prov 7:21-27 : 21 Thus with many swete wordes she ouercame him, and with hir flateringe lippes she wanne him. 22 Immediatly he foloweth her, as it were an oxeled to the slaughter (and like as it were to the stockes, where fooles are punyshed) 23 so longe till she hath wounded his lyuer with hir darte: like as yf a byrde haisted to the snare, not knowinge that the parell of his life lyeth there vpo. 24 Heare me now therfore (o my sonne) and marcke the wordes of my mouth. 25 Let not thine herte wandre in hir wayes, & be not thou disceaued in hir pathes. 26 For many one hath she wouded and cast downe, yee many a stronge ma hath she slayne. 27 Hir house is the waye vnto hell, where men go downe to the chambers of death.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But they cosider not that death is there, and that hir gestes go downe to hell.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 7:27-28
    2 verses
    81%

    27 Beholde (sayeth ye preacher) this haue I diligently searched out & proued, yt I might come by knowlege: which as yet I seke, and fynde it not.

    28 Amonge a thousande men I haue founde one, but not one woman amonge all.

  • Prov 5:3-6
    4 verses
    78%

    3 For the lippes of an harlot are a droppinge hony combe, and hir throte is softer then oyle.

    4 But at ye last she is as bitter as wormwod, and as sharpe as a two edged swerde.

    5 Hir fete go downe vnto death, and hir steppes pearse thorow vnto hell.

    6 She regardeth not the path of life, so vnstedfast are hir wayes, that thou canst not knowe them.

  • Prov 6:24-26
    3 verses
    77%

    24 that they maye kepe the fro the euell woman, & from the flaterynge tonge of the harlott:

    25 yt thou lust not after her beuty in thine herte, & lest thou be take wt hir fayre lokes.

    26 An harlot wil make a ma to begg his bred, but a maried woman wil hunt for ye precious life.

  • Prov 7:25-27
    3 verses
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    25 Let not thine herte wandre in hir wayes, & be not thou disceaued in hir pathes.

    26 For many one hath she wouded and cast downe, yee many a stronge ma hath she slayne.

    27 Hir house is the waye vnto hell, where men go downe to the chambers of death.

  • Prov 7:10-13
    4 verses
    75%

    10 And beholde, there mett him a woma in an harlottes apparell

    11 (a disceatfull, waton & an vnstedfast woma: whose fete coude not abyde in ye house,

    12 now is she without, now i ye stretes, & lurketh i euery corner)

    13 she caught ye yoge ma, kyssed him & was not ashamed, sayege:

  • Eccl 7:25
    75%

    25 I applied my mynde also vnto knowlege, and to seke out sciece, wisdome and vnderstondinge: to knowe the foolishnesse of the vngodly, and the erroure of dotinge fooles.

  • Prov 2:16-19
    4 verses
    75%

    16 That thou mayest be delyuered also from the straunge woman, and from her that is not thine owne: which geueth swete wordes,

    17 forsaketh the hu?bande of hir youth, and forgetteth the couenaunt of hir God.

    18 For hir house is enclyned vnto death, and hir pathes vnto hell.

    19 All they that go in vnto her, come not agayne, nether take they holde of the waye of life.

  • Prov 7:21-23
    3 verses
    75%

    21 Thus with many swete wordes she ouercame him, and with hir flateringe lippes she wanne him.

    22 Immediatly he foloweth her, as it were an oxeled to the slaughter (and like as it were to the stockes, where fooles are punyshed)

    23 so longe till she hath wounded his lyuer with hir darte: like as yf a byrde haisted to the snare, not knowinge that the parell of his life lyeth there vpo.

  • Prov 7:5
    74%

    5 that she maye kepe ye fro ye strauge woma, & fro ye harlot which geueth swete wordes.

  • Prov 22:14
    73%

    14 The mouth of an harlot is a depe pytt, wherin he falleth that ye LORDE is angrie withall.

  • Prov 23:27-28
    2 verses
    73%

    27 For an whore is a depe graue, and an harlot is a narow pytt.

    28 She lurketh like a thefe, and those that be not awarre she brigeth vnto her.

  • Prov 3:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 Hir wayes are pleasaunt wayes, and all hir pathes are peaceable.

    18 She is a tre of life to them that laye holde vpon her, and blessed are they that kepe her fast.

  • Prov 23:33
    73%

    33 So shal thine eyes loke vnto straunge women, & thine herte shal muse vpon frowarde thinges.

  • Prov 5:20
    72%

    20 My sonne, why wilt thou haue pleasure in an harlot, and embrace the bosome of another woma?

  • Prov 11:22
    71%

    22 A fayre woman without discrete maners, is like a rynge of golde in a swynes snoute.

  • Prov 8:35
    71%

    35 For who so fyndeth me, fyndeth life, and shal optayne fauoure of the LORDE.

  • Prov 21:19
    71%

    19 It is better to dwell in a wyldernesse, the with a chydinge and an angrie woman.

  • Prov 7:8
    71%

    8 goinge ouer the stretes, by the corner in the waye towarde the harlottes house

  • Prov 31:30-31
    2 verses
    71%

    30 As for fauor, it is disceatfull, and beutie is a vayne thinge: but a woman that feareth the LORDE, she is worthy to be praysed.

    31 Geue her of the frute of hir handes, and let hir owne workes prayse her in the gates.

  • Prov 27:16
    71%

    16 He that refrayneth her, refrayneth the wynde, and holdeth oyle fast in his hode.

  • Prov 30:23
    71%

    23 thorow an ydle houswife, & thorow an handmayden yt is heyre to hir mastres.

  • Ezek 16:32
    71%

    32 but as a wife yt breaketh wedlocke, & taketh other in steade of hir hu?bode.

  • Prov 31:10
    71%

    10 Who so fyndeth an honest faithful woma, she is moch more worth the perles.

  • Prov 18:22
    71%

    22 Who so fyndeth a wife fyndeth a good thynge, & receaueth an wholsome benefite of the LORDE.

  • Job 31:9
    71%

    9 Yf my hert hath lusted after my neghbours wife, or yf I haue layed wayte at his dore:

  • Hos 2:7
    70%

    7 and though she runne after hir louers, yet shall she not get them: she shal seke them, but not fynde them. Then shal she saye: well, I will go turne agayne to my first hu?bonde, for at yt tyme was I better at ease, then now:

  • Prov 4:6
    70%

    6 Forsake her not, and she shal preserue the: loue her, and she shal kepe the.

  • Prov 5:8
    70%

    8 Kepe thy waye farre from her, and come not nye ye dores of hir house.

  • Prov 6:32
    70%

    32 But who so comitteth aduoutrie with a woma, he is a foole, and bryngeth his life to destruccion.

  • 1 Tim 5:6
    70%

    6 But she that lyueth in pleasures, is deed, euen yet a lyue.

  • Prov 21:9
    70%

    9 It is better to dwell in a corner vnder ye house toppe, then with a braulinge woman in a wyde house.

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