Parallel Verses

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;

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 forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; 18 For her house sinks down to death
And her tracks lead to the dead;
19 none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.

Cross References

Proverbs 5:4-14

but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

Proverbs 6:26-35

for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married womanhunts down a precious life.

Proverbs 7:22-27

All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast

Proverbs 9:18

But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Galatians 5:19-21

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

Ephesians 5:5

For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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