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Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Harlot (Prostitute);   Hell;   Lasciviousness;   Women;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Evil;   Hell;   Sheol;   Temptresses;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Whoredom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Hell;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prostitution;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hell;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hades;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Steps;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Hell;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Death;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Chastity;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Her feet go down to death;her steps head straight for Sheol.
Hebrew Names Version
Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to She'ol.
King James Version
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
English Standard Version
Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;
New Century Version
She is on the way to death; her steps are headed straight to the grave.
New English Translation
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
New American Standard Bible
Her feet go down to death, Her steps take hold of Sheol.
World English Bible
Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell.
Legacy Standard Bible
Her feet go down to death,Her steps take hold of Sheol,
Berean Standard Bible
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.
Contemporary English Version
If you follow her, she will lead you down to the world of the dead.
Complete Jewish Bible
Her feet go down to death, her steps lead straight to Sh'ol;
Darby Translation
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol.
Easy-to-Read Version
She is on a path leading to death, and she will lead you straight to the grave.
George Lamsa Translation
Her feet cause men to go down to death; her steps take her to Sheol.
Good News Translation
She will take you down to the world of the dead; the road she walks is the road to death.
Lexham English Bible
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold of Sheol.
Literal Translation
her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Hir fete go downe vnto death, and hir steppes pearse thorow vnto hell.
American Standard Version
Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;
Bible in Basic English
Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on the nether-world;
King James Version (1611)
Her feete goe downe to death: her steps take hold on hell.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Her feete go downe vnto death, and her steppes pearce thorowe vnto hell.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the feet of folly lead those who deal with her down to the grave with death; and her steps are not established.
English Revised Version
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hir feet gon doun in to deeth; and hir steppis persen to hellis.
Update Bible Version
Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;
Webster's Bible Translation
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
New King James Version
Her feet go down to death,Her steps lay hold of hell. [fn]
New Living Translation
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
New Life Bible
Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold of hell.
New Revised Standard
Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Her feet, are going down to death, - on hades, will her steps take firm hold.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.
Revised Standard Version
Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;
Young's Literal Translation
Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Her feet go down to death, Her steps take hold of Sheol.

Contextual Overview

1My son, be attentive to my wisdom [godly wisdom learned by costly experience], Incline your ear to my understanding; 2That you may exercise discrimination and discretion (good judgment), And your lips may reserve knowledge and answer wisely [to temptation]. 3For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey [like a honeycomb] And her speech is smoother than oil; 4But in the end she is bitter like [the extract of] wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. 5Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),6So that she does not think [seriously] about the path of life; Her ways are aimless and unstable; you cannot know where her path leads. 7Now then, my sons, listen to me And do not depart from (forget) the words of my mouth. 8Let your way [in life] be far from her, And do not go near the door of her house [avoid even being near the places of temptation], 9Or you will give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel one, 10And strangers will be filled with your strength And your hard-earned wealth will go to the house of a foreigner [who does not know God];

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 2:18, Proverbs 2:19, Proverbs 7:27

Reciprocal: Proverbs 9:18 - the dead Proverbs 15:24 - that Luke 16:23 - in hell

Cross-References

Genesis 3:19
"By the sweat of your face You will eat bread Until you return to the ground, For from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."
Genesis 5:7
Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after the birth of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:8
So Seth lived nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.
Genesis 5:10
Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years after the birth of Kenan and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:11
So Enosh lived nine hundred and five years, and he died.
Genesis 5:12
When Kenan was seventy years old, he became the father of Mahalalel.
Genesis 5:14
So Kenan lived nine hundred and ten years, and he died.
Genesis 5:21
When Enoch was sixty-five years old, he became the father of Methuselah.
Genesis 5:22
Enoch walked [in habitual fellowship] with God three hundred years after the birth of Methuselah and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:32
After Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Her feet go down to death,.... The ways in which she walks, and in which she leads others, issue oftentimes in corporeal death; and always in eternal death, if grace prevent not; and unless men are brought to a sense of sin, to repent of it and leave it. The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, "the feet of imprudence" or "folly", in opposition to wisdom; that is, the feet of the foolish woman, such an one the harlot is; and such is the whore of Rome, notwithstanding all her boasted knowledge and wisdom. And into perdition, or the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death, she goes herself, and hither she brings all that follow her idolatrous practices, Revelation 17:8;

her steps take hold on hell; make sure of it; hell is the certain portion of the harlot, and of all those that follow her lewd courses, unless reclaimed by the grace of God; and this will be the case of the worshippers of antichrist, or who give into the idolatries of the church of Rome, or commit fornication with her, Revelation 14:9. Or, "her steps support hell" h; keep it up, and fill it with inhabitants; millions are carried into it by her means: or, reach unto hell; she stops not till she comes there, and her followers with her. The word may be rendered "the grave", and may respect such whores who haunted burying places, and prostituted themselves among the graves; and were called from hence "bustuariae moechae" i.

h יתמכו "sustentabunt", Montanus; "sustinant", Vatablus; "sustentent", Mercerus, Gejerus. i Vid. Turnebi Adversar. l. 13. c. 19. & Sept. vers. in Jer. ii. 23.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 5:5. Her feet go down to death — She first, like a serpent, infuses her poison, by which the whole constitution of her paramour is infected, which soon or late brings on death.

Her steps take hold on hell. — First, the death of the body; and then the damnation of the soul. These are the tendencies of connections with such women.


 
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