Proverbs 7:27
25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Her house is the way to hell, going down 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 take hold on hell.
Read in contextProverbs 9:18
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Read in contextRevelation 22:15
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Read in contextProverbs 2:18–19
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
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