Proverbs 9:17-18

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁷‘Stolen water is sweet,
and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.’
¹⁸But they do not know that the dead^[a] are there,
that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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Proverbs 9:18 Heb shades

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)

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