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Proverbs 9:15-18 Amplified Bible (AMP)

15. Calling to those who pass by, who go uprightly on their way:

16. Whoever is simple (wavering and easily led astray), let him turn in here! And as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

17. Stolen waters (pleasures) are sweet [because they are forbidden]; and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Prov. 20:17.]

18. But he knows not that the shades of the dead are there [specters haunting the scene of past transgressions], and that her invited guests are [already sunk] in the depths of Sheol (the lower world, Hades, the place of the dead).