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16 ‘You who are simple, turn in here!’
    And to those without sense she says,
17 ‘Stolen water is sweet,
    and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.’
18 But they do not know that the dead[a] are there,
    that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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  1. Proverbs 9:18 Heb shades

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