Proverbs 9:18 NIV: But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.

Proverbs 9:18

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New International Version (© 2011)
But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
And he hath not known that Rephaim are there, In deep places of Sheol her invited ones!

Proverbs 9:18 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

But he knoweth not that the dead are there - See on Proverbs 2:18 (note). He does not know that it was in this way the first apostates from God and truth walked. רפאים rephaim; gigantev, the Giants - Septuagint. The sons of men, the earth-born, to distinguish them from the sons of God, those who were born from above. See the notes on Genesis 6:1, etc.

Her guests are in the depths of hell - Those who have been drawn out of the way of understanding by profligacy have in general lost their lives, if not their souls, by their folly. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic make a long addition to this verse: "But draw thou back, that thou mayest not die in this place; neither fix thy eyes upon her; so shalt thou pass by those strange waters. But abstain thou from strange waters, and drink not of another's fountain, that thou mayest live a long time, and that years may be added to thy life." Of this addition there is nothing in the Hebrew, the Chaldee, or the Vulgate, as now printed: but in the editio princeps are the following words: Qui enim applicabitur illi descendet ad inferos; nam qui abscesserit ab ea salvabitur. These words were in the copy from which my old MS. Bible has been made, as the following version proves: Who forsoth schal ben joyned to hir, schal falle doun on to hell: for whi he that goth awai fro hir, schal be saved. Three of my own MSS. have the same reading.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Psalm 82:5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

2 Peter 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old...

the dead

Proverbs 2:18,19 For her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead...

Proverbs 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

Proverbs 6:26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

Proverbs 7:27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 9:18 Parallel Commentaries
Dead Deep Depths Grave Guests Hell Invited Little Nether-World Ones Places Rephaim Shades Sheol Underworld
Dead Deep Depths Grave Guests Hell Invited Little Nether-World Ones Places Rephaim Shades Sheol Underworld
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