Ecclesiastes 7:26

Modern English Version

And I find more bitter than death a woman whose heart is like snares and nets, whose hands are like prison cells. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.

Cross References

Genesis 19:35

So they made their father drink wine that night also. Then the younger arose and lay down with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

Genesis 39:9

There is none greater in this house than I. He has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”

Exodus 10:7

Then Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, so that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

Proverbs 2:16

to deliver you from the wayward woman, from the adulteress who flatters with her words,

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the Lord will fall into it.

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

Proverbs 6:24

to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattering tongue of an adulteress.

Proverbs 9:18

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

Ecclesiastes 2:26

To the person who is pleasing before Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the one who sins, He gives the task to gather and collect, to give to the other person who is pleasing before God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

“This is what I have observed,” says Qoheleth, “while adding one thing to another to understand the scheme of things,