Ecclesiastes 7:26

The Scriptures 1998

And I found more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are shackles. He who pleases Elohim escapes from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

Cross References

Genesis 19:35

So they made their father drink wine that night as well. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she arose.

Genesis 39:9

“No one is greater in this house than I, and he has not withheld whatever from me but you, because you are his wife. And how shall I do this great evil and sin against Elohim?”

Exodus 10:7

And Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “Till when would this one be a snare to us? Let the men go, so that they serve יהוה  their Elohim. Do you not yet know that Mitsrayim is destroyed?”

Proverbs 2:16

To deliver you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words,

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit; The one denounced by יהוה  falls in there.

Proverbs 6:23

For the command is a lamp, And the Torah a light, And reproofs of discipline a way of life,

Proverbs 6:24

To guard you against an evil woman, From the flattering tongue of a strange woman.

Proverbs 9:18

But he does not know that the dead are there, Her guests are in the depths of the grave.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His eyes. But to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and collecting, to give to him who is good before Elohim. That too is futile and feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

“See, this I have found,” says Qoheleth, “Counting one by one, to find a conclusion,