Ecclesiastes 7:26

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

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  • Prov 22:14 : 14 ¶ The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
  • Prov 5:3-5 : 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
  • Prov 2:18-19 : 18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. 19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 For [God] giveth to a man that [is] good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to [him that is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
  • Judg 16:18-21 : 18 ¶ And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand. 19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. 20 And she said, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him. 21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
  • Prov 23:27-28 : 27 For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit. 28 She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
  • Prov 7:21-27 : 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life. 24 ¶ Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong [men] have been slain by her. 27 Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell.

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    27Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, [counting] one by one, to find out the account:

    28Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

  • Prov 5:3-6
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    3For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:

    4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

    5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

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  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

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    26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong [men] have been slain by her.

    27Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

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  • Prov 2:16-19
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    17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

    18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

    19None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

  • Prov 7:21-23
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    21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

    22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

    23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.

  • Prov 7:5
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  • Prov 22:14
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  • Prov 23:27-28
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    27For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.

    28She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

  • Prov 3:17-18
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    17Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and all her paths [are] peace.

    18She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.

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    33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

  • Prov 5:20
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  • Prov 21:19
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  • Prov 7:8
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  • Prov 30:23
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  • Ezek 16:32
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  • Prov 18:22
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  • Job 31:9
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  • Hos 2:7
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    7And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find [them]: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then [was it] better with me than now.

  • Prov 4:6
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    6Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

  • Prov 5:8
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    8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

  • Prov 6:32
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    32[But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

  • 1 Tim 5:6
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    6But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

  • Prov 21:9
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    9¶ [It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.