Ecclesiastes 7:26

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

And I found a woman bitterer than death, the which is the snare of hunters, and her heart is a net, and her hands be bonds; he that pleaseth God shall escape her, but he that is a sinner, shall be taken of her.

Cross References

Genesis 19:35

And they gave to their father also in that night to drink wine, and the less daughter entered, and slept with him; and soothly he feeled not then when she lay down, neither when she [a] rose.

Genesis 39:9

neither anything is, which is not in my power, either which he hath not betaken to me, except thee, which art his wife; how therefore may I do this evil, and do sin against my lord?

Exodus 10:7

Forsooth the servants of Pharaoh said to him, How long shall we suffer this offense? Deliver the men, that they make sacrifice to their Lord God; seest thou not that Egypt hath perished?

Proverbs 2:16

That thou be delivered from an alien woman, and from a strange woman, that maketh soft her words;

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of an alien woman is a deep ditch; he to whom the Lord is wroth shall fall into it.

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandment of God is a lantern, and the law is light, and the blaming of teaching is the way of life;

Proverbs 6:24

that they keep thee from an evil woman, and from a flattering tongue of a strange woman.

Proverbs 9:18

And [he] knew not that giants be there; and the guests of her be in the depths of hell. Soothly he that shall be applied, either fastened, to her, shall go down to hells [or shall fall down into hell]. For why he that goeth away from her shall be saved.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

God gave wisdom, and knowing, and gladness to a good man in his sight; but he gave torment, and superfluous busyness to a sinner, that he increase, and gather together, and give to him that pleaseth God; but also this is vanity, and vain busyness of soul.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

Lo! I found this, said Ecclesiastes, one and other, that I should find reason,