Ecclesiastes 7:26

Absolute Wisdom Is Unattainable

²⁵ I directed my mind to know, to investigate and to seek wisdom and an explanation, and to know the evil of folly and the foolishness of madness. ²⁶ And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her. ²⁷ “Behold, I have discovered this,” says the Preacher, “adding one thing to another to find an explanation,

Before God

From God

Pleasing to God

O God

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit;
He who is cursed of the Lord will fall into it.

Proverbs 2:18-19

For her house sinks down to death
And her tracks lead to the dead;

Proverbs 5:3-5

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey
And smoother than oil is her speech;

Judges 16:18-21

When Delilah saw that he had told her all that was in his heart, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up once more, for he has told me all that is in his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hands.

Proverbs 2:16

To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the adulteress who flatters with her words;

Proverbs 7:21-27

With her many persuasions she entices him;
With her flattering lips she seduces him.

Proverbs 9:18

But he does not know that the dead are there,
That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Proverbs 23:27-28

For a harlot is a deep pit
And an adulterous woman is a narrow well.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to a person who is good in His sight He has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, while to the sinner He has given the task of gathering and collecting so that he may give to one who is good in God’s sight. This too is vanity and striving after wind.