Proverbs 9:17–18

¹⁷ “Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!” ¹⁸ But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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Proverbs 2:17–19

¹⁷ who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. ¹⁸ For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits. ¹⁹ None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

Proverbs 30:19–21

¹⁹ the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a maiden. ²⁰ This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’ ²¹ Under three things the earth trembl…

Job 20:11–13

¹¹ The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust. ¹² Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue, ¹³ though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,

1 Clement 51:3–5

³ For it is good for a man to make confession of his trespasses rather than to harden his heart, as the heart of those was hardened who made sedition against Moses the servant of God; whose condemnation was clearly manifest, (1CL) ⁴ for they went down to hades alive, an… (1CL)

Apocryphon of John 15:7–9

⁷ Its root is bitter and its branches are mortality, its shadow is odium, and trickery dwells inside its leaves, and its blossom is the evil anointing, and its fruit is mortality, and lust is its seed, and it buds in the darkness. (APJ) ⁸ Those who taste «22» of it, the… (APJ)