But he does not know that the dead are there, Her guests are in the depths of the grave.
Her house is the way to the grave, Going down to the rooms of death.
Her feet go down to death, Her steps lay hold of the grave.
For because of a whore One is brought to a crust of bread. And an adulteress hunts a precious life.
The fear of יהוה is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and discipline.
They do not know, nor do they understand, They walk about in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
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,
For many are the wounded she has caused to fall, And numerous all her slain ones.
“For the turning away of the simple slays them, And the complacency of fools destroys them.