Ecclesiastes 7:26
I found that more bitter than death is any woman 2 whose heart is full of snares and nets, 2 and whose hands are chains. 1 Whoever pleases God will escape from her, 2 but the sinner will be taken by her.
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Genesis 39:9No one is greater in this house than I am. He has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”
Judges 16:19She had him fall asleep in her lap. She called for a man to shave off the seven locks of his head, and she began to subdue him, for his strength had left him.
Proverbs 2:18For her house leads down to death 1 and her tracks will lead you to those in the grave. 1
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of an adulteress drip with honey 1 and her mouth is smoother than oil, 1
Proverbs 7:21With much talk she turned him; 1 with her smooth lips she misled him. 1
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; 1 Yahweh's anger is stirred up against anyone who falls into it. 1
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 →