Proverbs 5:5
New International Version
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.

New Living Translation
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.

English Standard Version
Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;

Berean Standard Bible
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.

King James Bible
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.

New American Standard Bible
Her feet go down to death, Her steps take hold of Sheol.

NASB 1995
Her feet go down to death, Her steps take hold of Sheol.

NASB 1977
Her feet go down to death, Her steps lay hold of Sheol.

Legacy Standard Bible
Her feet go down to death, Her steps take hold of Sheol,

Amplified Bible
Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),

Christian Standard Bible
Her feet go down to death; her steps head straight for Sheol.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Her feet go down to death; her steps head straight for Sheol.

American Standard Version
Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And her legs marry to death; her walk causes men to recline in Sheol.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the feet of folly lead those who deal with her down to the grave with death; and her steps are not established.

Contemporary English Version
If you follow her, she will lead you down to the world of the dead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.

English Revised Version
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Her feet descend to death. Her steps lead straight to hell.

Good News Translation
She will take you down to the world of the dead; the road she walks is the road to death.

International Standard Version
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead to Sheol.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on the nether-world;

Literal Standard Version
Her feet are going down to death, | Her steps take hold of Sheol.

Majority Standard Bible
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.

New American Bible
Her feet go down to death, her steps reach Sheol;

NET Bible
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.

New Revised Standard Version
Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol.

New Heart English Bible
Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

Webster's Bible Translation
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

World English Bible
Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

Young's Literal Translation
Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Avoiding Immorality
4in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword. 5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol. 6She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.…

Cross References
Revelation 6:8
Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider's name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by the beasts of the earth.

Proverbs 7:27
Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.


Treasury of Scripture

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

Proverbs 2:18,19
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead…

Proverbs 7:27
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

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(5) Take hold on hell.--They lead straight to it.

Verse 5. - Vers. 5 and 6 continue the description of the harlot. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. She leads her victims to ruin. She hastens to death and the grove, and so do all those who listen to her. In all instances where the teacher speaks of the harlot at length he gives the same description of her (cf. Proverbs 2:18; Proverbs 7:27; Proverbs 9:18). An intensifying of the language is observable in the second hemistich. The descending progress to death becomes the laying hold of the grave, the underworld, as if nothing could turn her steps aside. And it is not only death, as the cessation of life, but death as a punishment, that is implied, just as the grave has in it the idea of corruption. (On "hell," sh'ol, see Proverbs 1:12.)

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Her feet
רַ֭גְלֶיהָ (raḡ·le·hā)
Noun - fdc | third person feminine singular
Strong's 7272: A foot, a step, the pudenda

go down
יֹרְד֣וֹת (yō·rə·ḏō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend

to death;
מָ֑וֶת (mā·weṯ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin

her steps
צְעָדֶ֥יהָ (ṣə·‘ā·ḏe·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 6806: A pace, regular step

lead straight
יִתְמֹֽכוּ׃ (yiṯ·mō·ḵū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 8551: To sustain, to obtain, keep fast, to help, follow close

to Sheol.
שְׁ֝א֗וֹל (’ō·wl)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 7585: Underworld (place to which people descend at death)


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