Proverbs 7:27 {8:1}
Good News Translation
If you go to her house, you are on the way to the world of the dead. It is a shortcut to death.

New Revised Standard Version
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

Contemporary English Version
Her house is a one-way street leading straight down to the world of the dead.

New American Bible
Her house is a highway to Sheol, leading down into the chambers of death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice?

Proverbs 2:18,19 None that go in unto her, shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life. . . .

Proverbs 5:5 They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.

Proverbs 9:18 A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.

Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.

Context
Warnings about the Adulteress
26Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death. 27Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 6:9
Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:

1 Corinthians 6:10
Nor the effeminate nor liers with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor railers nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of God.

Revelation 22:15
Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

Proverbs 2:18
None that go in unto her, shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life.

Proverbs 5:5
They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.

Proverbs 7:8
In the dark when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night.

Proverbs 9:18
A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.

Proverbs 7:26
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