¹⁸ But he doesn't know that the dead are there, That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

²⁷ Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.

⁵ They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

⁷ The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

¹⁸ For her house leads down to death, Her paths to the dead.

¹⁹ None who go to her return again, Neither do they attain to the paths of life:

⁵ Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

²⁶ For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

⁵ For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;