Ecclesiastes 7:26

New American Bible - revised edition

More bitter than death I find the woman who is a hunter’s trap, whose heart is a snare, whose hands are prison bonds. The one who pleases God will be delivered from her, but the one who displeases will be entrapped by her.

Cross References

Genesis 19:35

So that night, too, they plied their father with wine, and then the younger one went in and lay with him; but he was not aware of her lying down or getting up.

Genesis 39:9

He has no more authority in this house than I do. He has withheld from me nothing but you, since you are his wife. How, then, could I do this great wrong and sin against God?”

Exodus 10:7

But Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will he be a snare for us? Let the people go to serve the Lord, their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is being destroyed?”

Proverbs 2:16

Saving you from a stranger, from a foreign woman with her smooth words,

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of the foreign woman is a deep pit; whoever incurs the Lord’s anger will fall into it.

Proverbs 6:23

For the command is a lamp, and the teaching a light, and a way to life are the reproofs that discipline,

Proverbs 6:24

Keeping you from another’s wife, from the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.

Proverbs 9:18

Little do they know that the shades are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol!

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one who pleases God, he gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the one who displeases, God gives the task of gathering possessions for the one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chase after wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

See, this have I found, says Qoheleth, adding one to one to find the sum.