Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart [is] nets and snares, her hands [are] bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
27See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason
Cross References
Genesis 39:9none is greater in this house than I, and he hath not withheld from me anything, except thee, because thou [art] his wife; and how shall I do this great evil? — then have I sinned against God.'
Judges 16:19and she maketh him sleep on her knees, and calleth for a man, and shaveth the seven locks of his head, and beginneth to afflict him, and his power turneth aside from off him;
Proverbs 2:18For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil [is] her mouth,
Proverbs 7:21She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.
Proverbs 22:14A deep pit [is] the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.
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 →