Ecclesiastes 7:26

Bible in Basic English 1965

And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

Cross References

Genesis 19:35

And that night again they made their father take much wine; and the younger daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.

Genesis 39:9

So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

Exodus 10:7

And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long is this man to be the cause of evil to us? let the men go so that they may give worship to the Lord their God: are you not awake to Egypt's danger?

Proverbs 2:16

To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

Proverbs 6:23

For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.

Proverbs 6:24

They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

Proverbs 9:18

But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,