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Proverbs 9:16-18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Proverbs 9:16-18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 “Let those who are naive turn in here,
to those who lack sense I say,
17 Stolen water is sweet,
and bread taken secretly is pleasing!”[a]
18 Little do they know that the shades are there,
that her guests are in the depths of Sheol![b]
Footnotes
- 9:17 “Stolen water” seems to refer to adultery, for “water” in 5:15–17 refers to the wife’s sexuality; “stolen” refers to stealing the sexuality belonging to another’s household. “Secret” evokes the furtive meeting of the wife and the youth in chap. 7.
- 9:18 The banquet chamber of Folly is a tomb from which no one who enters it is released; cf. 7:27. Shades: the Rephaim, the inhabitants of the underworld.
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