Proverbs 9:18

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But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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

Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;

for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man's very life.

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

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

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,

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

For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacence of fools destroys them;