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Literal Standard Version

Proverbs 5:5

Her feet are going down to death, || Her steps take hold of Sheol.

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.
Amplified Bible
Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
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! Give attention to my wisdom, || Incline your ear to my understanding, 2To observe thoughtfulness, || And your lips keep knowledge. 3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, || And her mouth [is] smoother than oil, 4And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, || Sharp as a sword [with] mouths. 5Her feet are going down to death, || Her steps take hold of Sheol.6The path of life—lest you ponder, || Her paths have moved—you do not know. 7And now, you sons, listen to me, || And do not turn from sayings of my mouth. 8Keep your way far from off her, || And do not come near to the opening of her house, 9Lest you give your splendor to others, || And your years to the fierce, 10Lest strangers be filled [with] your power, || And your labors in the house of a stranger,

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 eat bread until your return to the ground, for you have been taken out of it, for dust you [are], and to dust you return."
Genesis 5:7
And Seth lives after his begetting Enos eight hundred and seven years [[or seven hundred and seven years]], and begets sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:8
And all the days of Seth are nine hundred and twelve years, and he dies.
Genesis 5:10
And Enos lives after his begetting Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years [[or seven hundred and fifteen years]], and begets sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:11
And all the days of Enos are nine hundred and five years, and he dies.
Genesis 5:12
And Cainan lives seventy years [[or one hundred and seventy years]], and begets Mahalaleel.
Genesis 5:14
And all the days of Cainan are nine hundred and ten years, and he dies.
Genesis 5:21
And Enoch lives sixty-five years [[or one hundred and sixty-five years]], and begets Methuselah.
Genesis 5:22
And Enoch habitually walks with God after his begetting Methuselah three hundred years [[or two hundred years]], and begets sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:32
And Noah is a son of five hundred years, and Noah begets 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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