Ecclesiastes 7:26

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters; he 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 arose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

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 can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

Exodus 10:7

And 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 understand that Egypt is ruined?”

Proverbs 2:16

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

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry will fall 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 evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.

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

For to the man 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 striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, adding one thing to another to find the sum,