Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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

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;

Amplified


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

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 is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind: 18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades: 19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

Cross References

Proverbs 5:4-14

But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

Proverbs 6:26-35

For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

Proverbs 7:22-27

The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

Proverbs 9:18

But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

Galatians 5:19-21

Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

Ephesians 5:5

Being certain of this, that no man who gives way to the passions of the flesh, no unclean person, or one who has desire for the property of others, or who gives worship to images, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Revelation 21:8

But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.

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