Proverbs 2:18
New International Version
Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.

New Living Translation
Entering her house leads to death; it is the road to the grave.

English Standard Version
for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed;

Berean Standard Bible
For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

King James Bible
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

New King James Version
For her house leads down to death, And her paths to the dead;

New American Standard Bible
For her house sinks down to death, And her tracks lead to the dead;

NASB 1995
For her house sinks down to death And her tracks lead to the dead;

NASB 1977
For her house sinks down to death, And her tracks lead to the dead;

Legacy Standard Bible
For her house sinks down to death And her tracks descend to the dead;

Amplified Bible
For her house leads down to death And her paths lead to the dead;

Christian Standard Bible
for her house sinks down to death and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for her house sinks down to death and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.

American Standard Version
For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
She has forgotten the doorposts of her house and the steps of her paths.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For she has fixed her house near death, and guided her wheels near Hades with the giants.

Contemporary English Version
The road to her house leads down to the dark world of the dead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.

English Revised Version
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Her house sinks down to death. Her ways lead to the souls of the dead.

Good News Translation
If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the world of the dead.

International Standard Version
For her house leads down to death, and her paths down to the realm of the dead.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For her house sinketh down unto death, And her paths unto the shades;

Literal Standard Version
For her house has inclined to death, | And her paths to Rephaim.

Majority Standard Bible
For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

New American Bible
For her path sinks down to death, and her footsteps lead to the shades.

NET Bible
For her house sinks down to death, and her paths lead to the place of the departed spirits.

New Revised Standard Version
for her way leads down to death, and her paths to the shades;

New Heart English Bible
for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

Webster's Bible Translation
For her house inclineth to death, and her paths to the dead.

World English Bible
for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.

Young's Literal Translation
For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

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Context
The Benefits of Wisdom
17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. 18For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits. 19None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.…

Cross References
Genesis 49:15
He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.

Proverbs 7:27
Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.


Treasury of Scripture

For her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead.

Proverbs 5:4-14
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword…

Proverbs 6:26-35
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 7:22-27
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; …

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Proverbs 2
1. wisdom promises godliness to her children
10. and safety from evil company
20. and direction in good ways














(18) For her house inclineth . . .--Rather, she sinks down with her house: house and all, like Dathan and Abiram.

Unto the dead.--In Hebrew the Reph?im. The word may signify those "at rest" (comp. Job 3:17 : "There the weary are at rest"); or the "weak." (Comp. Isaiah 14:10 : "Art thou also become weak as we?")

Verse 18. - For her house inclineth unto death; rather, she sinks down to death together with her house (Bottcher, Delitzsch). The objection to the Authorized Version is that it does not tbllow the construction of the original, the verb "sinks down" (שָׁחָה, shakhah) being feminine, while "house" (בָיִת, bayith) is invariably masculine. Aben Ezra translates, "She sinks down to death, (which is to be) her house;" but it seems better to regard "her house" as an adjunct of the strange woman. Her house includes all who belong to her. She and they are involved in the same fate. The Authorized Version is evidently influenced by the Vulgate, Inclinata est enim ad mortem domus ejus, "For her house is inclined to death." The LXX. gives a different rendering, Ἕθετο γὰρ παρὰ τῷ θανάτῳ τὸν οϊκον αὐτῆς, "For she hath placed her house beside death." So the Arabic. The "for" (כִּי, ki) refers back to ver. 16, and indicates how great is the deliverance effected by wisdom. The meaning of the passage is aptly illustrated by Proverbs 7:27, "Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death." And her paths unto the dead. The dead (רְפָאִים, r'phaim) are properly the quiet, or the feeble. They are the shadowy inhabitants or shades of Hades, the inferi of the Vulgate, and are here put for Sheol itself. Compare the ἔδωλα καμνόντων of Homer, and the umbrae, "shades," of Virgil. The word occurs again in Proverbs 9:18; Proverbs 21:16; and in Psalm 88:11; Isaiah 26:14, 19; Job 26:5.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

her house
בֵּיתָ֑הּ (bê·ṯāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

sinks down
שָׁ֣חָה (šā·ḥāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7743: To sink down

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

death,
מָ֣וֶת (mā·weṯ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin

and her tracks
מַעְגְּלֹתֶֽיהָ׃ (ma‘·gə·lō·ṯe·hā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 4570: An entrenchment, track

to
וְאֶל־ (wə·’el-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the departed spirits.
רְ֝פָאִ֗ים (rə·p̄ā·’îm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7496: Shades, ghosts


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