Verse 16

The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 49:14 : 14 They will travel to Sheol like sheep, with death as their shepherd. The godly will rule over them when the day of vindication dawns; Sheol will consume their bodies and they will no longer live in impressive houses.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 As for those who are bent on traveling a sinful path, may the LORD remove them, along with those who behave wickedly! May Israel experience peace!
  • Prov 2:18-19 : 18 For she has set her house by death, and her paths by the place of the departed spirits. 19 None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.
  • Prov 7:26-27 : 26 for she has brought down many fatally wounded, and all those she has slain are many. 27 Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But they do not realize that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave.
  • Prov 13:20 : 20 The one who associates with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
  • Zeph 1:6 : 6 and those who turn their backs on the LORD and do not want the LORD’s help or guidance.”
  • John 3:19-20 : 19 Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
  • Eph 2:1 : 1 New Life Individually And although you were dead in your offenses and sins,
  • Heb 6:4-6 : 4 For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age, 6 and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.
  • Heb 10:26-27 : 26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, 27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies.
  • Heb 10:38 : 38 But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him.
  • 2 Pet 2:21-22 : 21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them. 22 They are illustrations of this true proverb:“A dog returns to its own vomit,” and“A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire.”
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.
  • Jude 1:12 : 12 These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit– twice dead, uprooted;