Ecclesiastes 7:26

A Conservative Version

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Cross References

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of LORD shall fall in it.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and 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 striving after wind.

Proverbs 2:16

to deliver thee from the interloping woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words,

Proverbs 9:18

But he knows not that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Exodus 10:7

And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve LORD their God. Do thou not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Proverbs 6:24

to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

Behold, I have found this, says the Preacher, [laying] one thing to another, to find out the account,

Genesis 19:35

And they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose, and lay with him. And he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Genesis 39:9

He is not greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?