Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
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In Context
27Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,
Cross References
Genesis 39:9So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?
Judges 16:19And she made him go to sleep on her knees; and she sent for a man and had his seven twists of hair cut off; and while it was being done he became feeble and his strength went from him.
Proverbs 2:18For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:
Proverbs 5:3For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
Proverbs 7:21With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:24-29
The Evil of Sin. 23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. 24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? 25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: 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… Read the whole commentary →