16 Long life is in her right hand;(A)
    in her left hand are riches and honor.(B)
17 Her ways are pleasant ways,
    and all her paths are peace.(C)
18 She is a tree of life(D) to those who take hold of her;
    those who hold her fast will be blessed.(E)

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16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.

17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

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16 (A)Length of days is in her right hand,
In her left hand riches and honor.
17 (B)Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
And all her paths are peace.
18 She is (C)a tree of life to those who take hold of her,
And happy are all who [a]retain her.

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  1. Proverbs 3:18 hold her fast

Keep to a path far from her,(A)
    do not go near the door of her house,

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Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

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Remove your way far from her,
And do not go near the door of her house,

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26 I find more bitter than death
    the woman who is a snare,(A)
whose heart is a trap
    and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her,
    but the sinner she will ensnare.(B)

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26 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.

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26 (A)And I find more bitter than death
The woman whose heart is snares and nets,
Whose hands are fetters.
[a]He who pleases God shall escape from her,
But the sinner shall be trapped by her.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:26 Lit. He who is good before God