Ecclesiastes 7:26 - Tree of Life Version

²⁶ 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.

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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

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—