Ecclesiastes 7:26 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁶ And I found more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are shackles. He who pleases Elohim escapes from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ And I found that [of all sinful follies none has been so ruinous in seducing one away from God as idolatrous women] more bitter than death is the woman whose heart is snares and nets and whose hands are bands. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Common English Bible

²⁶ I found one woman more bitter than death: she who is a trap, her heart a snare, her hands shackles. Anyone who pleases God escapes her, but a sinner is trapped by her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ I have examined all things in my soul, so that I may know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason, and so that I may recognize the impiety of the foolish, and the error of the imprudent.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent:

Ecclesiastes 7:26 Cross References

Genesis 19:35

So they made their father drink wine that night as well. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she arose.

Genesis 39:9

No one is greater in this house than I, and he has not withheld whatever from me but you, because you are his wife. And how shall I do this great evil and sin against Elohim?

Exodus 10:7

And Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “Till when would this one be a snare to us? Let the men go, so that they serve יהוה their Elohim. Do you not yet know that Mitsrayim is destroyed?”

Proverbs 2:16

To deliver you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words,

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit; The one denounced by יהוה falls in there.

Proverbs 6:23

For the command is a lamp, And the Torah a light, And reproofs of discipline a way of life,

Proverbs 6:24

To guard you against an evil woman, From the flattering tongue of a strange woman.

Proverbs 9:18

But he does not know that the dead are there, Her guests are in the depths of She’ol.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His eyes. But to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and collecting, to give to him who is good before Elohim. That too is futile and feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

“See, this I have found,” says Qoheleth, “Counting one by one, to find a conclusion,