Proverbs 5:5
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.
BSB
ASV
Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;
KJV
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk4
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Through
Proverbs 7:27Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
leads to
But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is…