Parallel Verses

Amplified


For her house leads down to death
And her paths lead to the dead;

New American Standard Bible

For her house sinks down to death
And her tracks lead to the dead;

King James Version

For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

For her house leads down to death, and her paths down to the realm of the dead.

A Conservative Version

(for her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead;

American Standard Version

For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;

Bible in Basic English

For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

Darby Translation

for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead;

Julia Smith Translation

For her house sunk down to death, and her tracks to the shades.

King James 2000

For her house leads unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

Lexham Expanded Bible

for her house sinks to death, and to the dead are her paths.

Modern King James verseion

For her house bows down to death, and her paths to the dead.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For her house is inclined unto death, and her paths into hell.

NET Bible

For her house sinks down to death, and her paths lead to the place of the departed spirits.

New Heart English Bible

for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

The Emphasized Bible

For she hath appointed, unto death, her house, and unto the shades, her courses;

Webster

For her house inclineth to death, and her paths to the dead.

World English Bible

for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

Youngs Literal Translation

For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

שׁוּח 
Shuwach 
Usage: 3

מות 
Maveth 
Usage: 156

and her paths
מעגּלה מעגּל 
Ma`gal 
Usage: 16

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

The Benefits Of Wisdom

17
Who leaves the companion (husband) of her youth,
And forgets the covenant of her God.
18 
For her house leads down to death
And her paths lead to the dead;
19
None who go to her return again,
Nor do they regain the paths of life—

Cross References

Proverbs 5:4-14


But in the end she is bitter like [the extract of] wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.

Proverbs 6:26-35


For on account of a prostitute one is reduced to a piece of bread [to be eaten up],
And the immoral woman hunts [with a hook] the precious life [of a man].

Proverbs 7:22-27


Suddenly he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter [not knowing the outcome],
Or as one in stocks going to the correction [to be given] to a fool,

Proverbs 9:18


But he does not know that the spirits of the dead are there,
And that her guests are [already] in the depths of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate [by perversion], nor those who participate in homosexuality,

Galatians 5:19-21

Now the practices of the sinful nature are clearly evident: they are sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality (total irresponsibility, lack of self-control),

Ephesians 5:5

For be sure of this: no immoral, impure, or greedy person—for that one is [in effect] an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God [for such a person places a higher value on something other than God].

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowards and unbelieving and abominable [who are devoid of character and personal integrity and practice or tolerate immorality], and murderers, and sorcerers [with intoxicating drugs], and idolaters and occultists [who practice and teach false religions], and all the liars [who knowingly deceive and twist truth], their part will be in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs [the godless, the impure, those of low moral character] and the sorcerers [with their intoxicating drugs, and magic arts], and the immoral persons [the perverted, the molesters, and the adulterers], and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying (deception, cheating).

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