Ecclesiastes 7:26 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

²⁶ I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ 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

²⁶ 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)

²⁶ 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

²⁶ 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

²⁶ 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.

Ecclesiastes 7:26 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 19:35

They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she got up.

Genesis 39:9

He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?*

Exodus 10:7

Par`oh's servants said to him, *How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?*

Proverbs 2:16

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

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under the LORD's wrath will fall into it.

Proverbs 6:23

For the mitzvah is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Proverbs 6:24

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

Proverbs 9:18

But he doesn't know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of She'ol.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:27

Behold, this have I found, says Kohelet, one to another, to find out the scheme;