Verse 26

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.

Referenced Verses

  • 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!