Proverbs 1:12
Let us engulf them, like hades, alive, While in health, like them who are going down to the pit;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
In Context
13All costly substance, shall we find, We shall fill our houses with spoil;
Cross References
Numbers 26:10and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up—with Korah also, when the assembly died,—when the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men, and they became a warning;
Psalms 28:1Unto thee, O Yahweh, do I cry, O my Rock! do not turn in silence from me,—lest, if thou turn from me in silence, I be like them who go down into the pit.
Psalms 56:1Show me favour, O God, For weak man hath panted for me, All the day, a fighter oppresseth me:
Psalms 124:3Then, alive, had they swallowed us up, in the glow of their anger against us;
Jeremiah 51:34Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon—Hath devoured me Hath vexed me, Hath set me down as an empty vessel, He hath swallowed me like a sea-monster, He hath filled his belly with my dainties,—He hath driven me away!
Lamentations 2:16All thy foes, have opened wide, over thee their mouth, They have hissed, and gnashed their teeth, They have said—We have swallowed [her] up! Surely, this, is the day for which we have waited, We have found! We have seen!
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:11-20
Parental Admonitions. 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to… Read the whole commentary →