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Critique of Advice on Women. 26 (A)More bitter than death I find the woman[a] who is a hunter’s trap, whose heart is a snare, whose hands are prison bonds. The one who pleases God will be delivered from her, but the one who displeases will be entrapped by her.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:26 More bitter than death…the woman: warnings against the scheming, adulterous woman are common in ancient wisdom (e.g., Prv 2:16–19, etc.).

22 The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children,
    but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just.

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