But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
They have neither knowledge nor understanding; they walk around in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
For waywardness kills the simple, and the complacency of fools destroys them;
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol.
for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.
For many are those she has laid low, and numerous are her victims.
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
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,