Ecclesiastes 7:26

²⁴ What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?

²⁵ I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

²⁷ “Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.

²⁸ While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.

Dette ble sagt til Israel i en bestemt tid, så det er lurt å lese det sammen med teksten rundt. Les gjerne versene rundt også, for sammenhengen gir ofte mer enn ett vers alene.

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ÅB: Og jeg fant noe som er bitrere enn døden: kvinnen - hun er et garn og hennes hjerte en snare, og hennes hender er lenker; den som tekkes Gud, slipper fra henne, men synderen blir fanget av henne.
OTB: Jeg finner mer bittert enn døden den kvinnen som fanger, hvis hjerte er en felle og hvis hender er lenker. Den mannen som behager Gud vil unnslippe henne, men synderen vil hun fange.
B1930: Og jeg fant noget som er bitrere enn døden: kvinnen - hun er et garn og hennes hjerte en snare, og hennes hender er lenker; den som tekkes Gud, slipper fra henne, men synderen blir fanget av henne.

BSB: And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
KJV: 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.
WEB: 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.
ASV: And 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.
DARBY: and I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is nets and snares, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.
BLB: And I am finding more bitter than death the woman who, she [is] a snare and her heart [is] a net; her hands [are] bonds; The one who is good before the face of God escapes from her, and the one sinning will be captured by her.

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Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
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Proverbs 5:3–5
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
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Proverbs 2:16
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
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Proverbs 2:18–19
For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
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Ecclesiastes 2:26
To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
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Proverbs 23:27–28
For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
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Proverbs 7:21–27
With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.
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Judges 16:18–21
When Delilah realized that he had revealed to her all that was in his heart, she sent this message to the lords of the Philistines: “Come up once more, for he has revealed to me all that is in his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came to her, bringing the money in their hands.
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