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Ecclesiastes 7:26

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

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 7:26 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Ecclesiastes 7:26

Theological / Devotional

The woman. See Prov. 7:5-23.

Bands. The word translated “bands” is used elsewhere of the “bands” used by Delilah to bind Samson (Judges 16:8). The “snares,” “nets,” and “bands” picture the utterly unscrupulous woman (see Prov. 5:22 ; 22:14).

Pleaseth God. Literally, “is good before God.”

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