Verse 27
27. Her house is the way to hell שׁאול , ( sheol,) the infernal world. It is the way par excellence the surest and most direct road to perdition. Comp. Proverbs 2:18; Proverbs 9:18; Proverbs 16:25. Miller renders, “The ways to sheol are at her house.”
Commentators generally regard this woman as the representative of the adulteress. It is more probable that she is the type of dissolute women in general. Her tricks and ways are rather those of the open harlot than of the secret adulteress. True, she speaks of the man of the house as being absent, as if she had a husband, but this may be only a specimen of the artifice commonly used to give assurance of safety.
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