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Immorality Leads to Death

Proverbs 2:18-19 Updated American Standard Version (UASV)
¹⁸for her house sinks down to death,
and her tracks lead to the dead;^[7]
¹⁹none who go to^[8] her, none shall return,
nor do they reach paths of life.

[7] (Heb. Rephaim; the spirits of the departed) People who are no longer living
[8] I.e. having relations with

The young man is delivered from the sensual woman by the protection of wisdom. This adulteress woman has set aside the Word of God, following a path that leads to death, taking the young man with her. Her words to him are so smooth and flattering that he is unable to see the trail leading to her house of death. Thus, any who involves themselves with the immoral, sensual woman will very discover either very quickly in some cases and over time in others that they have made a profoundly serious horrifying mistake.

The immoral woman’s house sinks down to death. Of course, every man who has sexual relations with an immoral sensual woman does not end up dying from the experience itself; although, in rare cases, this has been the result. Here we are talking about her lifestyle being a lifestyle of death in the sense of spiritual, emotional, and financial death in the short-term, as well as a permanent physical death if one does not turn back from their evil ways.

Yes, this sensual woman’s tracks lead down to death, as the blinding sin of fornication and adultery are extremely destructive, for they lead to death. (Cf. 8-9, 12, 15) In the book of Proverbs, death is shown to be of a slow, gradual descent as one is led astray (5:23) and suddenly as he is broken beyond healing. (29:1) The strange woman (2:16) is referring to those who set aside what was in harmony with the Mosaic Law and thus distanced and estrange themselves from God. Therefore, the immoral sensual woman (prostitute) was not necessarily a foreigner.

“The strange woman,” the prostitute, is described as one “who forsakes the companion of her youth,” which is referring to the husband of her young womanhood. She has ignored and disregarded the prohibition on adultery that was a part of the covenant of her God, the Mosaic Law covenant. (Ex. 20:14) Her tracks lead to the dead. Those having sexual relations with her might never return or find their way back to the paths of life, as there is a point of no return, namely death, eternal destruction from which they cannot come back. A wise man of discernment and thinking ability is aware of the tricks and lures of immorality and he wisely avoids getting trapped in them. All should guard against entertaining and developing immoral desires.