Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 2:18

18. For her house inclineth unto death , and her paths unto the dead .

Conversation with her (which was most free and usual in her own House) is the ready and certain way to Death, which it brings many ways, by wasting a Mans Vital spirits and shortning his life, by exposing him to many and dangerous Diseases, which Physicians have declared and proved to be the effects of inordinate lust, as also to the fury of jealous Husbands or Friends, and sometimes to the Sword of Civil Justice, and undoubtedly, without repentance, to God's wrath and the second Death. This is here mentioned as one great priviledge and blessed fruit of Wisdom.

Or, as the Chaldee and some others render it▪ unto the Giants, to wit, those rebellious Giants, Gen. 6. 4. or, as others, unto the damned, or, unto H[illegible: 1+ letters]ll. See for this word Iob 7. 9. Psal. 88. 11. Prov. 9. 18. & 21. 16.