Ecclesiastes 7:26
English Standard Version
26 And I find something more (A)bitter than death: (B)the woman whose heart is (C)snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but (D)the sinner is taken by her.
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Proverbs 22:14
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14 The mouth of (A)forbidden[a] women is (B)a deep pit;
(C)he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 22:14 Hebrew strange
Proverbs 5:3-5
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3 For the lips of (A)a forbidden[a] woman drip honey,
and her speech[b] is (B)smoother than oil,
4 but in the end she is (C)bitter as (D)wormwood,
(E)sharp as (F)a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet (G)go down to death;
her steps follow the path to[c] Sheol;
Footnotes
- Proverbs 5:3 Hebrew strange; also verse 20
- Proverbs 5:3 Hebrew palate
- Proverbs 5:5 Hebrew lay hold of
Ecclesiastes 2:26
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26 For to the one who pleases him (A)God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given (B)the business of gathering and collecting, (C)only to give to one who pleases God. (D)This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
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Proverbs 2:18-19
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18 (A)for her house sinks down to death,
and her paths to the departed;[a]
19 none who go to her come back,
nor do they regain the paths of life.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 2:18 Hebrew to the Rephaim
Proverbs 2:16
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16 So (A)you will be delivered from the forbidden[a] woman,
from (B)the adulteress[b] with (C)her smooth words,
Footnotes
- Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew strange
- Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew foreign woman
Proverbs 23:27-28
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27 For a prostitute is (A)a deep pit;
(B)an adulteress[a] is a narrow (C)well.
28 (D)She lies in wait like a robber
and increases the traitors among mankind.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:27 Hebrew a foreign woman
Proverbs 7:21-27
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21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;
with (A)her smooth talk she compels him.
22 All at once he follows her,
as an ox goes to the slaughter,
or as a stag is caught fast[a]
23 till an arrow pierces its liver;
as (B)a bird rushes into a snare;
he does not know that it will cost him his life.
24 And (C)now, O sons, listen to me,
and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not your heart turn aside to her ways;
do not stray into her paths,
26 for many a victim has she laid low,
and all her slain are (D)a mighty throng.
27 Her house is (E)the way to Sheol,
going down to the chambers of death.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 7:22 Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac); Hebrew as a chain to discipline a fool
Proverbs 9:18
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Footnotes
- Proverbs 9:18 Hebrew Rephaim
Judges 16:18-21
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18 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up again, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought (A)the money in their hands. 19 She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began (B)to torment him, and his strength left him. 20 And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that (C)the Lord had left him. 21 And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. (D)And he ground at the mill in the prison.
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