Proverbs 9:18
But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
In Context
17“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”
Cross References
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 2:18for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.
Proverbs 6:26For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
2 Peter 3:5For they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 9:14-18
The Invitation of Folly. 13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. 14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, 15 To call passengers who go right on their ways: 16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. 18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. We have heard what… Read the whole commentary →