Ecclesiastes 7:26

Tree of Life Version

I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap, and whose hands are chains. He who pleases God will escape her, but a sinner will be captured by her.

Cross References

Genesis 19:35

So they made their father drink wine that night as well, and the younger got up and lay down with him and he did not know that she lay down and got up.

Genesis 39:9

No one in this house is greater than I, and he has withheld nothing from me—except you, because you are his wife. So how could I commit this great evil and sin against God?”

Exodus 10:7

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Send the men, so they may serve Adonai their God. Don’t you realize yet that Egypt is being destroyed?”

Proverbs 2:16

to deliver you from a seducing woman— a wayward wife with seductive words,

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a seducing woman is a deep pit—into it will fall one with whom Adonai is angry.

Proverbs 6:23

For the mitzvah is a lamp, Torah a light, and corrective discipline the way of life,

Proverbs 6:24

keeping you from the immoral woman, from a wayward wife’s smooth tongue.

Proverbs 9:18

But he does not know that the dead are there— her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one who pleases Him, He gives wisdom, knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and accumulating wealth to give it to one who pleases God. This also is only vapor and striving after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

“Look,” said Kohelet, “I have discovered this while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things—