But he does not know that the dead are there; her guests are in the depths of hell.
They neither know nor will understand; they walk on in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
For the turning away of the simple kills them, and the ease of fools destroys them.
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell,
For by means of a harlot a man comes to a piece of bread; and another man's wife will hunt for the precious life.
For she has cast down many wounded; yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the rooms of death.
For this is hidden from them by their willing it, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of the water, and through water, being held together by the Word of God,