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16 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”
    And to him who is without sense she says,
17 “Stolen water is sweet,
    and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
18 But he does not know that the dead[a] are there,
    that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 9:18 Heb shades

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