All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.(Ecclesiastes 7:23)

That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?(Ecclesiastes 7:24)

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:(Ecclesiastes 7:25)

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.

Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:(Ecclesiastes 7:27)

Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.(Ecclesiastes 7:28)

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.(Ecclesiastes 7:29)

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Ecclesiastes 7:26 - Cross Reference

For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit. (Ecclesiastes 2:26)

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. (Proverbs 9:18)

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. (Proverbs 7:21)

For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. (Proverbs 23:27)

And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath showed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand. (Judges 16:18)

For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. (Proverbs 2:18)

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: (Proverbs 5:3)

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein. (Proverbs 22:14)

To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; (Proverbs 2:16)