Proverbs 1:12
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Proverbs 1:12 in other translations
| BSB | let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit. |
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| WEB | Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit. |
| ASV | Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit; |
| YLT | We swallow them as Sheol--alive, And whole--as those going down to the pit, |
| DARBY | let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit; |
| BBE | Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death; |
| Webster | Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: |
What does Proverbs 1:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 1:10-19
10-19. A solemn warning against temptation. entice--literally, "open the way." consent ... not--Sin is in consenting or yielding to temptation, not in being tempted.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 1:10-19
Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the more to answer for. How cautious young people should be! "Consent thou not." Do not say as they say, nor do as they do, or would have thee to do; have no fellowship with them. Who could think that it should be a pleasure to one man to destroy another! See their idea of worldly wealth…
Proverbs 1:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 1:12
- Psalms 124:3
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
- Psalms 28:1
A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
- Romans 3:13
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
- Micah 3:2-3
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
- Psalms 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
- Psalms 56:1-2
To the chief Musician upon Jonath–elem–rechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
- Numbers 16:30-33
But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord. And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
- Psalms 35:25
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
- Psalms 143:7
Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
- Numbers 26:10
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
- Lamentations 2:5
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
- Psalms 57:3
He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
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Context
- Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
- Proverbs 1:12
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
- Proverbs 1:13
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Proverbs 1:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Los tragaremos vivos como el sepulcro, y enteros, como los que caen en sima; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | nous les engloutirons vivants, comme le shéol, et tout entiers comme ceux qui descendent dans la fosse; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | wir wollen sie lebendig verschlingen wie der Scheol, und unverletzt, gleich denen, welche plötzlich in die Grube hinabfahren; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | deglutiamus eum sicut infernus viventem, et integrum quasi descendentem in lacum; |