Ecclesiastes 7:26

Absolute Wisdom Is Unattainable

²⁵ I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and seek wisdom and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness. ²⁶ And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, her heart a net, and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her. ²⁷ “Look,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find out the explanation,

Before God

From God

Pleasing to God

O God

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit;
a man cursed by the Lord will fall into it.

Proverbs 2:18-19

for her house sinks down to death
and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.

Proverbs 5:3-5

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey
and her words are smoother than oil,

Judges 16:18-21

When Delilah realized that he had told her the whole truth, she sent this message to the Philistine leaders: “Come one more time, for he has told me the whole truth.” The Philistine leaders came to her and brought the money with them.

Proverbs 2:16

It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,
from a stranger with her flattering talk,

Proverbs 7:21-27

She seduces him with her persistent pleading;
she lures with her flattering talk.

Proverbs 9:18

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there,
that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Proverbs 23:27-28

For a prostitute is a deep pit,
and a stranger is a narrow well;

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.