Proverbs 9:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But he knows not that the shades of the dead are there [specters haunting the scene of past transgressions], and that her invited guests are [already sunk] in the depths of Sheol (the lower world, Hades, the place of the dead).

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

But they don’t know that the dead are there; her guests are in the depths of the grave.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he did not know that giants are there, and that her companions are in the depths of Hell.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he did not know that giants are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell. The Parables of Solomon

Proverbs 9:18 Cross References

Psalm 82:5

They have neither knowledge nor understanding; they walk around in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Proverbs 1:32

For waywardness kills the simple, and the complacency of fools destroys them;

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol.

Proverbs 6:26

for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.

Proverbs 7:26

For many are those she has laid low, and numerous are her victims.

Proverbs 7:27

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

2 Peter 3:5

They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water,