That night they again got their father to drink wine, and the younger went and slept with him; he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.
Ecclesiastes 7:26 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap: her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I found that [of all sinful follies none has been so ruinous in seducing one away from God as idolatrous women] more bitter than death is the woman whose heart is snares and nets and whose hands are bands. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her. American Standard Version (1901) And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. Common English Bible I found one woman more bitter than death: she who is a trap, her heart a snare, her hands shackles. Anyone who pleases God escapes her, but a sinner is trapped by her. Catholic Public Domain Version I have examined all things in my soul, so that I may know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason, and so that I may recognize the impiety of the foolish, and the error of the imprudent. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent: |
That night they again got their father to drink wine, and the younger went and slept with him; he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.
No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do this immense evil, and how could I sin against God? ’
Pharaoh’s officials asked him, ‘How long must this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, so that they may worship the Lord their God. Don’t you realise yet that Egypt is devastated? ’
It will rescue you from a forbidden woman, from a wayward woman with her flattering talk,
The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit; a man cursed by the Lord will fall into it.
For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective discipline is the way to life.
They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.
But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
For to the person who is pleasing in his sight, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
‘Look,’ says the Teacher, ‘I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find out the explanation,