Proverbs 9:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 7:27 : 27 Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
  • 2 Pet 3:5 : 5 But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;
  • Ps 82:5 : 5 They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
  • Prov 2:18-19 : 18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades: 19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
  • Prov 5:5 : 5 Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;
  • Prov 6:26 : 26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

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    21Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.

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    13Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.

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