Ecclesiastes 7:26
I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
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Cross references
- Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.
- Proverbs 5:3–5 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil, but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
- Proverbs 2:16 to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,