Proverbs 9:18 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁸ But he does 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

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.

Proverbs 9:18 Cross References

Psalm 82:5

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

Proverbs 1:32

For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacence 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 harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man's very life.

Proverbs 7:26

for many a victim has she laid low; yea, all her slain are a mighty host.

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 formed out of water and by means of water,