Ecclesiastes 7:26

New English Translation

I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.

Cross References

Genesis 19:35

So they made their father drunk that night as well, and the younger one came and had sexual relations with him. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.

Genesis 39:9

There is no one greater in this household than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”

Exodus 10:7

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a menace to us? Release the people so that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not know that Egypt is destroyed?”

Proverbs 2:16

to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,

Proverbs 6:24

by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.

Proverbs 9:18

But they do not realize that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner, he gives the task of amassing wealth – only to give it to the one who pleases God. This task of the wicked is futile – like chasing the wind!

Ecclesiastes 7:27

The Teacher says: I discovered this while trying to discover the scheme of things, item by item.