Proverbs 9:18 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁸ But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ But he knoweth not that the dead are there; And that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ 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)

¹⁸ But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ But they don’t know that the dead are there; her guests are in the depths of the grave.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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 know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

Proverbs 1:32

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Proverbs 1:7

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

Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

Proverbs 6:26

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

Proverbs 7:26

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

Proverbs 7:27

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

2 Peter 3:5

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: