New King James Version
Proverbs 1:12
12Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down to the Pit;
Proverbs 1:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
- New International Version (NIV)let’s swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
- English Standard Version (ESV)like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
- New Living Translation (NLT)Let’s swallow them alive, like the grave; let’s swallow them whole, like those who go down to the pit of death.
Context of Proverbs 1:12
10My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent. 11If they say, “Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down to the Pit; 13We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, We shall fill our houses with spoil; 14Cast in your lot among us, Let us all have one purse”—
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נִ֭בְלָעֵם כִּשְׁא֣וֹל חַיִּ֑ים וּ֝תְמִימִ֗ים כְּי֣וֹרְדֵי בֽוֹר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 1:12
- Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their hearts, “Ah, so we would have it!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”
- Psalms 56:1Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up; Fighting all day he oppresses me.
- Psalms 57:3He shall send from heaven and save me; He reproaches the one who would swallow me up. Selah God shall send forth His mercy and His truth.
- Psalms 124:3Then they would have swallowed us alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
- Jeremiah 51:34“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon Has devoured me, he has crushed me; He has made me an empty vessel, He has swallowed me up like a monster; He has filled his stomach with my delicacies, He has spit me out.
- Lamentations 2:5The Lord was like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds, And has increased mourning and lamentation In the daughter of Judah.
- Micah 3:2You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones;
- Psalms 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is destruction; Their throat is an open tomb; They flatter with their tongue.
- Romans 3:13“Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit”; “The poison of asps is under their lips”;
- Numbers 16:30But if the Lord creates a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit, then you will understand that these men have rejected the Lord.”
- Numbers 26:10and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men; and they became a sign.
- Psalms 28:1To You I will cry, O Lord my Rock: Do not be silent to me, Lest, if You are silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.
- Psalms 143:7Answer me speedily, O Lord; My spirit fails! Do not hide Your face from me, Lest I be like those who go down into the pit.
Commentaries on Proverbs 1:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Let us swallow them up alive - Give them as hasty a death as if the earth were suddenly to swallow them up. This seems to refer to the destruction of a whole village. Let us destroy man, woman, and child; and then we may seize on and carry away the whole of their property, and the booty will be great.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12i. e., “We will be as all-devouring as Sheol. The destruction of those we attack shall be as sudden as that of those who go down quickly into the pit.” Some render the latter clause, and upright men as those that go down to the pit. “Pit” here is a synonym for Sheol, the great cavernous depth, the shadow-world of the dead.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-19Verses 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; but it is neither…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12like Sheol: In the Old Testament, Sheol is the place of the dead. It is not always associated with punishment.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-1910-19. A solemn warning against temptation. entice--literally, "open the way." consent ... not--Sin is in consenting or yielding to temptation, not in being tempted.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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