Ecclesiastes 7:26

World English Bible (2000)

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

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  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
  • Prov 5:3-5 : 3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil, 4 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
  • Prov 2:18-19 : 18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead. 19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
  • Judg 16:18-21 : 18 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 has told me all his heart." Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand. 19 She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. 20 She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" He awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him. 21 The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
  • Prov 23:27-28 : 27 For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well. 28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
  • Prov 7:21-27 : 21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him. 22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose. 23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life. 24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth. 25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths, 26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. 27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But he doesn't know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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    27 "Behold, I have found this," says the Preacher, "one to another, to find out the scheme;

    28 which my soul still seeks; but I have not found. One man among a thousand have I found; but I have not found a woman among all those.

  • Prov 5:3-6
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    3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

    4 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

    5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

    6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

    25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

    26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

    26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

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

  • Prov 7:10-13
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    10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

    11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.

    12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

    13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25 I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

  • Prov 2:16-19
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    16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

    17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

    18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

    19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

  • Prov 7:21-23
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    21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

    22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

    23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.

  • Prov 7:5
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    5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

  • Prov 22:14
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    14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.

  • Prov 23:27-28
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    27 For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

    28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

  • Prov 3:17-18
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    17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

    18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

  • Prov 23:33
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    33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

  • Prov 5:20
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    20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

  • Prov 11:22
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    22 Like a gold ring in a pig's snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

  • Prov 8:35
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    35 For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

  • Prov 21:19
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    19 It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

  • Prov 7:8
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    8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

  • Prov 31:30-31
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    30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

    31 Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

  • Prov 27:16
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    16 restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.

  • Prov 30:23
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    23 for an unloved woman when she is married; and a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Prov 31:10
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    10 Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

  • Prov 18:22
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    22 Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

  • Job 31:9
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    9 "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

  • Hos 2:7
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    7 She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them; and she will seek them, but won't find them. Then she will 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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    6 Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

  • Prov 5:8
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    8 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

  • Prov 6:32
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    32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

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

  • Prov 21:9
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    9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.