Ecclesiastes 7:26

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What does Ecclesiastes 7:26 mean?

Ecclesiastes 7:26 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Ecclesiastes 7:26

• Proverbs 22:14

  The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.

• Proverbs 5:3-5

  For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

• Proverbs 2:16

  To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

• Proverbs 2:18-19

  For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

• Ecclesiastes 2:26

  For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

• Proverbs 23:27-28

  For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

• Proverbs 7:21-27

  With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. …

• Judges 16:18-21

  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 shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand. And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him. But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

• Proverbs 9:18

  But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

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Context

• Ecclesiastes 7:25

  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:

• Ecclesiastes 7:26

  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 her.

• Ecclesiastes 7:27

  Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

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