26And 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: …
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. …
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-29)Solomon had hitherto been proving the vanity of the world and its utter insufficiency to make men happy; now here he comes to show the vileness of sin, and its certain tendency to make men miserable; and this, as the former, he proves from his own experience, and it was a dear-bought experience. He is here, more than any where in all this book, putting on the habit of a penitent. He reviews what h…
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