Proverbs 7:27
 Proverbs 7:27 
New International Version (©2011)
Her house is a highway to the grave, leading down to the chambers of death.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Her house is the road to the grave. Her bedroom is the den of death.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Her house is the way to Sheol, Descending to the chambers of death.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Her house leads to Sheol, descending to death's catacombs.

NET Bible (©2006)
Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
The paths of her house are the paths of Sheol, of those descending to the chambers of death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Her home is the way to hell and leads to the darkest vaults of death.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Her house is the way to sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

American King James Version
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

American Standard Version
Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.

Darby Bible Translation
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

English Revised Version
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

Webster's Bible Translation
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

World English Bible
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

Young's Literal Translation
The ways of Sheol -- her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:6-27 Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after Solomon has set before his eyes in so lively and plain a manner, the danger of even going near them? Then is he as the man who would dance on the edge of a lofty rock, when he has just seen another fall headlong from the same place. The misery of self-ruined sinners began in disregard to God's blessed commands. We ought daily to pray that we may be kept from running into temptation, else we invite the enemies of our souls to spread snares for us. Ever avoid the neighbourhood of vice. Beware of sins which are said to be pleasant sins. They are the more dangerous, because they most easily gain the heart, and close it against repentance. Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it. Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 27. - Her house is the way to hell (sheol). A warning fontal in Proverbs 2:18 and Proverbs 5:5. Viae inferi domus ejus. The plural דַּרְכֵי is well expressed by Hitzig: "Her house forms a multiplicity of ways to hell." Manifold are the ways of destruction to which adultery leads; but they all look to one awful end. Going down to the chambers of death. Once entangled in the toils of the temptress, the victim may pass through many stages, but he ends finally in the lowest depth - destruction of body and soul Spiritual writers see here an adumbration of the seductions of false doctrine, and the late to which it brings all who by it are led astray.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Her house is the way to hell,.... Or "ways" (p); the broad highway to it; either to the grave, as "sheol" often signifies; or to hell itself, the place of the damned: to go into her house, and commit wickedness with her, is to take a step to destruction, a large stride towards hell; and, if grace prevent not, will bring a man thither. Who would go into such a house, and much less dwell there, which is the very suburbs of hell?

going down to the chambers of death; to enter her chamber, to step into her bed, howsoever decked and adorned, entertaining and inviting it is, not only leads to the chambers of the grave, as the Targum; but to the lowest and innermost parts of hell; the apartments of the second death, the lot of all unclean and idolatrous persons, without repentance and faith. The Phoenicians called Pluto, the god of hell, by the name of Moth (q), a word similar to this used here; and so those chambers are no other than the chambers of hell. Plautus (r) also calls the gate of a whore's house the gate of hell; which agrees with the first clause of the verse.

(p) "viae", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c. (q) Sanchoniatho apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 1. p. 38. (r) "Januam hane orci", Bacchides, Acts 3. Sc. 1. v. 1.


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Warnings about the Adulteress
25Let not your heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. 26For she has cast down many wounded: yes, many strong men have been slain by her. 27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

1 Corinthians 6:9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men
1 Corinthians 6:10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
Revelation 22:15 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Proverbs 2:18 Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
Proverbs 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
Proverbs 7:8 He was going down the street near her corner, walking along in the direction of her house
Proverbs 9:18 But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.