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Proverbs 7:24-27

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7:24 So now, sons, 1  listen to me,

and pay attention to the words I speak. 2 

7:25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways –

do not wander into her pathways;

7:26 for she has brought down 3  many fatally wounded,

and all those she has slain are many. 4 

7:27 Her house is the way to the grave, 5 

going down 6  to the chambers 7  of death.

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[7:24]  1 tn The literal translation “sons” works well here in view of the warning. Cf. KJV, NAB, NRSV “children.”

[7:24]  2 tn Heb “the words of my mouth.”

[7:26]  3 tn Heb “she has caused to fall.”

[7:26]  4 tn Heb “numerous” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT) or “countless.”

[7:27]  5 tn The noun “Sheol” in parallelism to “the chambers of death” probably means the grave. The noun is a genitive of location, indicating the goal of the road(s). Her house is not the grave; it is, however, the sure way to it.

[7:27]  6 tn The Qal active participle modifies “ways” to Sheol. The “road,” as it were, descends to the place of death.

[7:27]  7 tn “Chambers” is a hypocatastasis, comparing the place of death or the grave with a bedroom in the house. It plays on the subtlety of the temptation. Cf. NLT “Her bedroom is the den of death.”



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