Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
New American Standard Bible
Her steps take hold of Sheol.
King James Version
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Holman Bible
her steps head straight for Sheol.
International Standard Version
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead to Sheol.
A Conservative Version
Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold on Sheol,
American Standard Version
Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;
Amplified
Her feet go down to death;
Her steps take hold of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Bible in Basic English
Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;
Darby Translation
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol.
Julia Smith Translation
Her feet go down to death; her steps will hold fast to hades.
King James 2000
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on sheol.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Her feet go down [to] death; her steps take hold [of] Sheol.
Modern King James verseion
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Her feet go down unto death, and her steps pierce through unto hell.
NET Bible
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
The Emphasized Bible
Her feet, are going down to death, - on hades, will her steps take firm hold.
Webster
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
World English Bible
Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
Youngs Literal Translation
Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.
Themes
Chastity » Consequences of associating with those devoid of
Disobedience » The reward for being disobedient to your instructors
Evil » Temptresses, examples of women who have enticed men to sin » strange women
Harlot (prostitute) » To be shunned
Hell » In the rv the word "sheol" itself occurs in the following scriptures
Hell » The society of the wicked leads to
Temptresses » Eve » strange women
Whoredom » The reward for whoredom
Interlinear
Regel
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 5:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Avoid Seduction
4 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol. 6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.
Cross References
Proverbs 7:27
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
Proverbs 2:18-19
for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.