Ecclesiastes 7:26

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart `is' nets and snares, her hands `are' bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

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  • Prov 22:14 : 14 A deep pit `is' the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.
  • Prov 5:3-5 : 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil `is' her mouth, 4 And her latter end `is' bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword `with' mouths. 5 Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
  • Prov 2:18-19 : 18 For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths. 19 None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 For to a man who `is' good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.
  • Judg 16:18-21 : 18 And Delilah seeth that he hath declared to her all his heart, and she sendeth and calleth for the princes of the Philistines, saying, `Come up this time, for he hath declared to me all his heart;' and the princes of the Philistines have come up unto her, and bring up the money in their hand. 19 and she maketh him sleep on her knees, and calleth for a man, and shaveth the seven locks of his head, and beginneth to afflict him, and his power turneth aside from off him; 20 and she saith, `Philistines `are' upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, `I go out as time by time, and shake myself;' and he hath not known that Jehovah hath turned aside from off him. 21 And the Philistines seize him, and pick out his eyes, and bring him down to Gaza, and bind him with two brazen fetters; and he is grinding in the prison-house.
  • Prov 23:27-28 : 27 For a harlot `is' a deep ditch, And a strange woman `is' a strait pit. 28 She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.
  • Prov 7:21-27 : 21 She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him. 22 He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool, 23 Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it `is' for its life. 24 And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth. 25 Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths, 26 For many `are' the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty `are' all her slain ones. 27 The ways of Sheol -- her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 And he hath not known that Rephaim `are' there, In deep places of Sheol her invited ones!

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    27See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason

    28(that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found.

  • Prov 5:3-6
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    4And her latter end `is' bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword `with' mouths.

    5Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.

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

    25Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

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  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,

    26For many `are' the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty `are' all her slain ones.

    27The ways of Sheol -- her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!

  • Prov 7:10-13
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    10And, lo, a woman to meet him -- (A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,

    11Noisy she `is', and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.

    12Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --

    13And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him,

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  • Prov 2:16-19
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    16To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

    17Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.

    18For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

    19None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

  • Prov 7:21-23
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    21She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.

    22He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,

    23Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it `is' for its life.

  • Prov 7:5
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    5To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

  • Prov 22:14
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    14A deep pit `is' the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

  • Prov 23:27-28
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    27For a harlot `is' a deep ditch, And a strange woman `is' a strait pit.

    28She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.

  • Prov 3:17-18
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    17Her ways `are' ways of pleasantness, And all her paths `are' peace.

    18A tree of life she `is' to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her `is' happy.

  • Prov 23:33
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    33Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.

  • Prov 5:20
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    20And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

  • Prov 11:22
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    22A ring of gold in the nose of a sow -- A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.

  • Prov 8:35
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    35For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

  • Prov 21:19
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    19Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than `with' a woman of contentions and anger.

  • Prov 7:8
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    8Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way `to' her house he doth step,

  • Prov 31:30-31
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    30The grace `is' false, and the beauty `is' vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.

    31Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, And her works do praise her in the gates!

  • Prov 27:16
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    16Whoso is hiding her hath hidden the wind, And the ointment of his right hand calleth out.

  • Prov 30:23
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    23For a hated one when she ruleth, And a maid-servant when she succeedeth her mistress.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32The wife who committeth adultery -- Under her husband -- doth receive strangers.

  • Prov 31:10
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    10A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies `is' her price.

  • Prov 18:22
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    22`Whoso' hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

  • Job 31:9
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    9If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,

  • Hos 2:7
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    7And she hath pursued her lovers, And she doth not overtake them, And hath sought them, and doth not find, And she hath said: I go, and I turn back unto My first husband, For -- better to me then than now.

  • Prov 4:6
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    6Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee.

  • Prov 5:8
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    8Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

  • Prov 6:32
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    32He who committeth adultery `with' a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

  • 1 Tim 5:6
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    6and she who is given to luxury, living -- hath died;

  • Prov 21:9
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    9Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than `with' a woman of contentions and a house of company.