¹⁸ But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

²⁷ Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

⁵ They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

¹⁸ For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

¹⁹ Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

⁵ Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

²⁶ For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

⁵ But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;