Tree of Life Version
Proverbs 1:12
12Let’s swallow them alive like Sheol— still healthy, as they 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 King James Version (NKJV)Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down to the Pit;
Context of Proverbs 1:12
10My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in. 11Suppose they say: “Come with us! Let’s lie in wait for blood! Let’s ambush the innocent— for no reason! Let’s swallow them alive like Sheol— still healthy, as they go down to the Pit! 13We’ll find all sorts of valuable things, we’ll fill our homes with loot! 14Throw your lot in with us— we’ll all have one wallet.”
Read all of Proverbs 1Proverbs 1:12 word by word
נִ֭בְלָעֵם כִּשְׁא֣וֹל חַיִּ֑ים וּ֝תְמִימִ֗ים כְּי֣וֹרְדֵי בֽוֹר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 1:12
- Psalms 35:25Don’t let them say in their heart: “Aha! Just what we wanted!” Don’t let them say: “We swallowed him up!”
- Psalms 56:1For the music director: “A Silent Dove Far Away,” a Michtam of David, when the Philistines had seized him in Gath.
- Psalms 57:3I will cry out to El Elyon, to God who accomplishes it for me.
- Psalms 124:3then they would have swallowed us alive, when their wrath burned against us.
- Jeremiah 51:34“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me, crushed me, set me aside like an empty dish, swallowed me up like a dragon, filled his belly with my delicacies, rinsed me away.”
- Lamentations 2:5My Lord is like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all her citadels, destroyed her fortifications and multiplied mourning and moaning for the daughter of Judah.
- Micah 3:2You haters of good and lovers of evil, you are robbing their skin from them and their flesh from their bones.”
- Psalms 5:9Lead me, Adonai, in Your righteousness, because of my enemies. Make Your path straight before me.
- Romans 3:13Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they keep deceiving. The poison of vipers is under their lips.
- Numbers 16:30But if Adonai brings about a new thing, and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them and everything that is theirs, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised Adonai.”
- Numbers 26:10Then the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, whose followers died when the fire consumed the 250 men, these men serving as a warning.
- Psalms 28:1Of David. To You, Adonai, I call— my Rock, do not be deaf to me. If You were silent to me, I would become like those going down to the Pit.
- Psalms 143:7Answer me speedily, Adonai— my spirit fails. Hide not Your face from me, lest I become 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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