Proverbs 7:27
25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.
26 For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
- KJV
- Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
- WEB
- Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
- ASV
- Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
- DARBY
- Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
- BLB
- Her house [is] the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
- ÅB
- fra hennes hus går veier til dødsriket, de fører ned til dødens kammere.
- OTB
- Hennes hus er en motorvei til graven, som fører ned til dødens kamre.
- B1930
- fra hennes hus går veier til dødsriket, de fører ned til dødens kammere.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 5:5
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.
Read in contextProverbs 9:18
But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Read in contextRevelation 22:15
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Read in contextProverbs 2:18–19
For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
Read in context