Proverbs 9:18

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 7:27 : 27 Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
  • 2 Pet 3:5 : 5 For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;
  • Ps 82:5 : 5 They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; [But] the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
  • Prov 2:18-19 : 18 For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead; 19 None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
  • Prov 5:5 : 5 Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;
  • Prov 6:26 : 26 For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

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    16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither; And as for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,

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  • Prov 2:18-19
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    18For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;

    19None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

  • Eccl 9:5
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    5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

  • Job 18:21
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    21Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

  • Prov 7:27
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    27Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.

  • Prov 21:16
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    16The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

  • Isa 5:14
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    14Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend [into it] . [

  • Prov 5:5-6
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    5Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;

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  • Job 24:16-19
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    16In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

    17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

    18Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

    19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [So doth] Sheol [those that] have sinned.

  • Job 28:13-14
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    69%

    13Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

    14The deep saith, It is not in me; And the sea saith, It is not with me.

  • Isa 38:18
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    18For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

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    5They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.

    6Sheol is naked before [God], And Abaddon hath no covering.

  • Job 27:19
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    19He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers] ; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.

  • Job 3:21
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    21Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

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    17The dead praise not Jehovah, Neither any that go down into silence;

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    24To the wise the way of life [goeth] upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath.

  • Prov 15:11
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    11Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men!

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    7for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

  • Ps 6:5
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    5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?

  • Isa 14:9
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    9Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

  • Hab 2:5
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    5Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous, a haughty man, that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.

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    20Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.

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    17Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

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    32Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.

  • Prov 1:12
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    12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

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    17The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.

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    25And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And never tasteth of good.

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    5Come, eat ye of my bread, And drink of the wine which I have mingled.

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    19The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

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    11Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.

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    2 verses
    67%

    22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.

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    23whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

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    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.