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Proverbs 5:5

Hir feet gon doun in to deeth; and hir steppis persen to hellis.

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;
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

1 Mi sone, perseyue thou my wisdom, and bowe doun thin eere to my prudence; that thou kepe thi thouytis, 2 and thi lippis kepe teching. Yyue thou not tent to the falsnesse of a womman; 3 for the lippis of an hoore ben an hony coomb droppinge, and hir throte is clerere than oile; 4 but the last thingis ben bittir as wormod, and hir tunge is scharp as a swerd keruynge on ech side. 5 Hir feet gon doun in to deeth; and hir steppis persen to hellis. 6 Tho goon not bi the path of lijf; hir steppis ben vncerteyn, and moun not be souyt out. 7 Now therfor, my sone, here thou me, and go not awei fro the wordis of my mouth. 8 Make fer thi weie fro hir, and neiye thou not to the doris of hir hous. 9 Yyue thou not thin onour to aliens, and thi yeeris to the cruel; 10 lest perauenture straungeris be fillid with thi strengthis, and lest thi trauels be in an alien hous;

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
in swoot of thi cheer thou schalt ete thi breed, til thou turne ayen in to the erthe of which thou art takun; for thou art dust, and thou schalt turne ayen in to dust.
Genesis 5:7
And Seth lyuede aftir that he gendride Enos eiyte hundrid and seuen yeer, and gendride sones and douytris.
Genesis 5:8
And alle the daies of Seth weren maad nyne hundrid and twelue yeer, and he was deed.
Genesis 5:10
aftir whos birthe Enos lyuede eiyte hundrid and fiftene yeer, and gendride sones and douytris.
Genesis 5:11
And alle the daies of Enos weren maad nyne hundrid and fyue yeer, and he was deed.
Genesis 5:12
Also Caynan lyuyde seuenti yeer, and gendride Malalehel.
Genesis 5:14
And alle the dayes of Caynan weren maad nyn hundrid and ten yeer, and he was deed.
Genesis 5:21
Forsothe Enoth lyuede fyue and sixti yeer, and gendride Matusalem.
Genesis 5:22
And Enoth yede with God; and Enoth lyuede after that he gendride Matusalem thre hundrid yeer, and gendride sones and douytris.
Genesis 5:32
Forsothe Noe whanne he was of fyue hundrid yeer gendride Sem, Cham, and Jafeth.

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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