Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version None who go to her return or attain the paths of life. New Living Translation The man who visits her is doomed. He will never reach the paths of life. English Standard Version none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life. Berean Standard Bible None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life. King James Bible None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. New King James Version None who go to her return, Nor do they regain the paths of life— New American Standard Bible None who go to her return, Nor do they reach the paths of life. NASB 1995 None who go to her return again, Nor do they reach the paths of life. NASB 1977 None who go to her return again, Nor do they reach the paths of life. Legacy Standard Bible All who go to her will not return, And they will not reach the paths of life. Amplified Bible None who go to her return again, Nor do they regain the paths of life— Christian Standard Bible None return who go to her; none reach the paths of life. Holman Christian Standard Bible None return who go to her; none reach the paths of life. American Standard Version None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life: Aramaic Bible in Plain English None who enter unto her return, neither remember the way of life. Brenton Septuagint Translation None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they are not apprehended of the years of life. Contemporary English Version Visit her, and you will never find the road to life again. Douay-Rheims Bible None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life, English Revised Version None that go unto her return again, neither do they attain unto the paths of life: GOD'S WORD® Translation None who have sex with her come back. Nor do they ever reach the paths of life. Good News Translation No one who visits her ever comes back. He never returns to the road to life. International Standard Version None who go to her return, nor do they reach the paths of life. JPS Tanakh 1917 None that go unto her return, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life; Literal Standard Version None going in to her return, | Nor do they reach the paths of life. Majority Standard Bible None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life. New American Bible None who enter there come back, or gain the paths of life. NET Bible None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life. New Revised Standard Version those who go to her never come back, nor do they regain the paths of life. New Heart English Bible None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life: Webster's Bible Translation None that go to her return again, neither do they take hold of the paths of life. World English Bible None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life. Young's Literal Translation None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Benefits of Wisdom…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. 20So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.… Cross References Psalm 16:11 You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand. Proverbs 5:6 She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable. Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared. Treasury of Scripture None that go to her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. none Psalm 81:12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. take Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Jump to Previous Attain Feet Hold Life Paths Reach Regain Turn WaysJump to Next Attain Feet Hold Life Paths Reach Regain Turn WaysProverbs 2 1. wisdom promises godliness to her children10. and safety from evil company 20. and direction in good ways Verse 19. - None that go unto her return again. The fate of the companions of the strange woman is described as irrevocable. All who visit her shall not return again. The Targum reads, "They shall not return in peace." The difficulty which they who give themselves up to the indulgence of lust and passion encounter in extricating themselves makes the statement of the teacher an almost universal truth. Hence St. Chrysostom says, "It is as difficult to bring back a libidinous person to chastity as a dead man to life." This passage led some of the Fathers to declare that the sin of adultery was unpardonable. Fornication was classed by the scholastic divines among the seven deadly sins, and it has this character given to it in the Litany: "From fornication, and all other deadly sin." St. Paul says, "No whoremonger nor unclean person...hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God" (Ephesians 5:5; cf. 1 Corinthians 6:9; Revelation 22:15). The sin which they commit who have dealings with the strange woman is deadly and leads on to death, and from death there is no return, nor laying hold of or regaining the paths of life (see Job 7:9, 10). Compare the words with which Deiphobe, the Cumaean sibyl, addresses AEneas - "Tros Anchysiade, facilis descensus Averno Hebrew Noneכָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every who go to her בָּ֭אֶיהָ (bā·’e·hā) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go return יְשׁוּב֑וּן (yə·šū·ḇūn) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | Paragogic nun Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again [or] וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no negotiate יַ֝שִּׂ֗יגוּ (yaś·śî·ḡū) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 5381: To reach, overtake the paths אָרְח֥וֹת (’ā·rə·ḥō·wṯ) Noun - common plural construct Strong's 734: A well-trodden road, a caravan of life. חַיִּֽים׃ (ḥay·yîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life Links Proverbs 2:19 NIVProverbs 2:19 NLT Proverbs 2:19 ESV Proverbs 2:19 NASB Proverbs 2:19 KJV Proverbs 2:19 BibleApps.com Proverbs 2:19 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 2:19 Chinese Bible Proverbs 2:19 French Bible Proverbs 2:19 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 2:19 None who go to her return again (Prov. 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