Proverbs 9:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

But he does not know that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

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  • Prov 7:27 : 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
  • 2 Pet 3:5 : 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens existed of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
  • Ps 82:5 : 5 They do not know, nor do they understand; they walk in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
  • Prov 2:18-19 : 18 For her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead. 19 None who go to her return again, nor do they take hold of the paths of life.
  • Prov 5:5 : 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
  • Prov 6:26 : 26 For by means of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

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  • Prov 9:16-17
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    16Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

    17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

  • Prov 2:18-19
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    18For her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead.

    19None who go to her return again, nor do they take hold of the paths of life.

  • 5For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing, nor have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

  • 21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him who does not know God.

  • 27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

  • 16The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

  • 14Therefore hell has enlarged itself, and opened its mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he who rejoices, shall descend into it.

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

    6Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, so that you cannot know them.

  • Job 24:16-19
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    16In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

    17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

    18He is as swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.

    19Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does the grave those who have sinned.

  • Job 28:13-14
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    69%

    13Man does not know its value; nor is it found in the land of the living.

    14The depth says, 'It is not in me'; and the sea says, 'It is not with me.'

  • 18For Sheol cannot praise You, death cannot celebrate You: those who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

  • Job 26:5-6
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    5Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

    6Hell is naked before Him, and destruction has no covering.

  • 19The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more.

  • 21Who long for death, but it does not come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

  • 17The dead do not praise the LORD, nor any who go down into silence.

  • 24The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

  • 11Hell and destruction are before the LORD; how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men?

  • 7For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?

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    5For in death there is no remembrance of You: in the grave, who shall give You thanks?

  • 9Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

  • 5Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither stays at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all people:

  • Job 7:9-10
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    9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

    10He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him anymore.

  • 20Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

  • 17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?

  • 32Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

  • 12Let us swallow them alive like the grave, and whole, like those who go down into the pit;

  • 6He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.

  • 8It is as high as heaven; what can you do? Deeper than the grave; what can you know?

  • 5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, and they are cut off from your hand.

  • 17The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

  • 25Another dies in the bitterness of his soul, never having eaten with pleasure.

  • 6A senseless man does not know, nor does a fool understand this.

  • 21His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.

  • 5Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mixed.

  • 36But whoever sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those who hate me love death.

  • 19The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.

  • 11Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.

  • Job 15:22-23
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    22He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.

    23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • 23Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is around her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

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