Ecclesiastes 7:26
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Critique of Advice on Women. 26 (A)More bitter than death I find the woman[a] who is a hunter’s trap, whose heart is a snare, whose hands are prison bonds. The one who pleases God will be delivered from her, but the one who displeases will be entrapped by her.
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- 7:26 More bitter than death…the woman: warnings against the scheming, adulterous woman are common in ancient wisdom (e.g., Prv 2:16–19, etc.).
Proverbs 13:22
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
22 The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children,
but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just.
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