Ecclesiastes 7:26
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.
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25so much more than it was before. Wisdom is very profound, so who shall reveal her?
Cross References
Genesis 39:9Neither is there anything which is not in my power, or that he has not delivered to me, except you, for you are his wife. How then can I do this evil act and sin against my God?”
Judges 16:19But she made him sleep upon her knees, and recline his head upon her bosom. And she called a barber, and he shaved his seven locks of hair. And she began to push him away, and to repel him from herself. For immediately his strength departed from him.
Proverbs 2:18and who has forgotten the covenant of her God. For her household inclines toward death, and her paths toward Hell.
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a loose woman are like a dripping honeycomb, and her voice is smoother than oil.
Proverbs 7:21She enmeshed him with many words, and she drew him forward with the flattery of her lips.
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of a foreign woman is a deep pit; the Lord was angry with him who will fall 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 →