27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
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But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. …
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-27)We have here the application of the foregoing story: “ Hearken to me therefore , and not to such seducers (Pr. 7:24); give ear to a father, and not to an enemy.” 1. “Take good counsel when it is given you. Let not thy heart decline to her ways (Pr. 7:25); never leave the paths of virtue, though strait and narrow, solitary and up-hill, for the way of the adulteress, though green, and broad, and cro…
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