Proverbs 1:12 {13}
Good News Translation
They may be alive and well when we find them, but they'll be dead when we're through with them!

New Revised Standard Version
like Sheol let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the Pit.

Contemporary English Version
They're well and healthy now, but we'll finish them off once and for all.

New American Bible
Let us swallow them alive, like Sheol, whole, like those who go down to the pit!

Douay-Rheims Bible
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.

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Psalm 35:25 Let them not say in their hearts: It is well, it is well, to our mind: neither let them say: We have swallowed him up.

Psalm 56:1,2 Unto the end, for a people that is removed at a distance from the sanctuary: for David, for an inscription of a title (or pillar) when the Philistines held him in Geth. [2] Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me. . . .

Psalm 57:3 He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: he hath made them a reproach that trod upon me. God hath sent his mercy and his truth,

Psalm 124:3 Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,

Jeremiah 51:34 Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he hath devoured me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats, and he hath cast me out.

Lamentations 2:5,16 He. The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath cast down Israel headlong, he hath overthrown all the walls thereof: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of Juda the afflicted, both men and women. . . .

Micah 3:2,3 And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment, . . .

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Psalm 5:9 For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

Romans 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

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Numbers 16:30-33 But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord. . . .

Numbers 26:10 And the earth opening her mouth swallowed up Core, many others dying, when the fire burned two hundred and fifty men. And there was a great miracle wrought,

Psalm 28:1 A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Context
The Enticement of Sin
11Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit. 12We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.13Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.…
Cross References
Psalm 28:1
A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 35:25
Let them not say in their hearts: It is well, it is well, to our mind: neither let them say: We have swallowed him up.

Psalm 124:3
Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,

Proverbs 1:13
Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.

Proverbs 1:11
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