Proverbs 9:18

In 11 translations

BSB

But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.Hebrew the Rephaim

KJV

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

WEB

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.Sheol is the place of the dead.

ASV

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

LSV

And he has not known that Rephaim [are] there, || Her invited ones in deep places of Sheol!

YLT

And he hath not known that Rephaim [are] there, In deep places of Sheol her invited ones!

DBY

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; [that] her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

DRC

And he did not know that giants are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

GNV

But he knoweth not, that ye dead are there, and that her ghestes are in the depth of hell.

JPS

But he knoweth not that the shades are there; that her guests are in the depths of the nether-world.

LXXE

But he knows that mighty men die by her, and he falls in with a snare of hell. But hasten away, delay not in the place, neither fix thine eye upon her: for thus shalt thou go through strange water; but do thou abstain from strange water, and drink not of a strange fountain, that thou mayest live long, and years of life may be added to thee.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וְֽלֹא־יָ֭דַע כִּֽי־רְפָאִ֣ים שָׁ֑ם בְּעִמְקֵ֖י שְׁא֣וֹל קְרֻאֶֽיהָ׃

LXX-Br

Ὁ δὲ οὐκ οἶδεν ὅτι γηγενεῖς παρʼ αὐτῇ ὄλλυνται, καὶ ἐπὶ πέταυρον ᾅδου συναντᾷ· ἀλλὰ ἀποπήδησον, μὴ χρονίσῃς ἐν τῷ τόπῳ, μηδὲ ἐπιστήσῃς τὸ σὸν ὄμμα πρὸς αὐτὴν, οὕτως γὰρ διαβήσῃ ὕδωρ ἀλλότριον· ἀπὸ δὲ ὕδατος ἀλλοτρίου ἀπόσχου, καὶ ἀπὸ πηγῆς ἀλλοτρίας μὴ πίῃς ἵνα πολὺν ζησῃς χρόνον, προστεθῇ δέ σοι ἔτη ζωῆς.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 7:27Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
• Proverbs 2:18–19For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits. None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
• Proverbs 5:5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.
• Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
• Psalms 82:5They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
• Proverbs 6:26For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
• 2 Peter 3:5But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

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