Ecclesiastes 7:26
Ecclesiastes chapter 7 · verse 26 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And 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.
Context
v.25I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.
v.26This passage
v.27Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, laying one thing to another, to find out the account;
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 7:21
With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.
- Proverbs 2:16
To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
- Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:
- Proverbs 2:18
For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;
- Judges 16:18
And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath told me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought the money in their hand.
- Proverbs 23:27
For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.