Ecclesiastes 7:26

New Revised Standard Version

I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Cross References

Genesis 19:35

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

Genesis 39:9

He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

Exodus 10:7

Pharaoh's officials said to him, “How long shall this fellow be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the Lord their God; do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?”

Proverbs 2:16

You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry falls into it.

Proverbs 6:23

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

Proverbs 6:24

to preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Proverbs 9:18

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

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

See, this is what I found, says the Teacher, adding one thing to another to find the sum,