Proverbs 15:24

24. The way of life is above (or upward) to the wise Or, prudent.

That he may depart Or, because of his departing.

From hell beneath Sheol, from the infernal world. The path of life to the wise is upward in order to avoid the under world, but if sheol means only the grave, or the state of the dead, how could the wise man, any more than the fool, avoid it? For this one event happeneth to them all; for “how dieth the wise man as the fool?” Ecclesiastes 2:15-16. See also Proverbs 11:7; Proverbs 14:32.