Proverbs 9:18 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁸ But he does not know that the dead are there, Her guests are in the depths of the grave.

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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 do not know, nor do they understand, They walk about in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Proverbs 1:32

“For the turning away of the simple slays them, And the complacency of fools destroys them.

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of יהוה  is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death, Her steps lay hold of the grave.

Proverbs 6:26

For because of a whore One is brought to a crust of bread. And an adulteress hunts a precious life.

Proverbs 7:26

For many are the wounded she has caused to fall, And numerous all her slain ones.

Proverbs 7:27

Her house is the way to the grave, Going down to the rooms of death.

2 Peter 3:5

For they choose to have this hidden from them: that the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by the Word of Elohim,