Ecclesiastes 7:26

New King James Version

And I find more bitter than death The woman whose heart is snares and nets, Whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God shall escape from her, But the sinner shall be trapped by her.

Cross References

Genesis 19:35

Then 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 or when she arose.

Genesis 39:9

There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything 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, 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 immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words,

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; He who is abhorred by the Lord will fall there.

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandment is a lamp, And the law a light; Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Proverbs 6:24

To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattering tongue of a seductress.

Proverbs 9:18

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

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

Here is what I have found,” says the Preacher, “Adding one thing to the other to find out the reason,