Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 2:18
18. Her house inclineth unto death “The house of the adulteress is as hades, the realm of death, haunted by the spectral shadows of the dead, the Rephaim, who have perished there.” Speaker’s Com. Psalms 88:11; Isaiah 14:9. Her paths unto the dead Lead to the region of the dead, of shadows, shades, ghosts. Zockler renders: Her house sinketh down to death, And her paths (lead) to the dead, Miller, last clause, “to the shades.” The Septuagint renders the 18th verse thus: “For she has... read more
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 2:18
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.For — Conversation with her (which was most usual in her own house) is the certain way to death, which it brings many ways, and undoubtedly, without repentance, to God's wrath and the second death. read more