Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Let us engulf them, like hades, alive, While in health, like them who are going down to the pit;
New American Standard Bible
Even whole, as those who
King James Version
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Holman Bible
still healthy as they go down to the Pit.
International Standard Version
Let's swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those who go down into the Pit.
A Conservative Version
Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.
American Standard Version
Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
Amplified
Let us swallow them alive like Sheol (the place of the dead),
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit [of death];
Bible in Basic English
Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;
Darby Translation
let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;
Julia Smith Translation
We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit:
King James 2000
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive and whole, {like those who descend to the pit}.
Modern King James verseion
let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let us swallow them up like the hell, let us devour them quick and whole, as those that go down into the pit.
NET Bible
We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.
New Heart English Bible
let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
Webster
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
World English Bible
let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
Youngs Literal Translation
We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down to the pit,
Themes
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Exhortations to shun all inducements to
Birds » Illustrative » (snaring,) of designs of the wicked
Character » Of the wicked » Enticing to evil
Character of the wicked » Enticing to evil
Profit » Those that profit from violence
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 1:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Advice To The Young
11 If they say - Come with us, - Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us watch in secret for him who is needlessly innocent; 12 Let us engulf them, like hades, alive, While in health, like them who are going down to the pit; 13 All costly substance, shall we find, We shall fill our houses with spoil;
Cross References
Psalm 28:1
Unto 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.
Psalm 124:3
Then, alive, had they swallowed us up, in the glow of their anger against us;
Numbers 16:30-33
But, if, a cremation, Yahweh create, and the ground open wide her mouth and swallow them up, with all that pertain unto them, and so they go down alive unto hades, then shall ye know, that these men have despised Yahweh.
Numbers 26:10
and 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;
Psalm 5:9
For in his mouth is nothing worthy of trust, Their inward purpose, is engulphing ruin, - An opened sepulchre, is their throat, With their tongue, speak they smooth things.
Psalm 35:25
Let them not say in their heart, Aha! to our mind! Let them not say, We have swallowed him up!
Psalm 56:1-2
Show me favour, O God, For weak man hath panted for me, All the day, a fighter oppresseth me:
Psalm 57:3
He will send out of heaven, that he may save me, He who is panting for me, hath reproached. Selah.God will send out his lovingkindness and his faithfulness.
Jeremiah 51:34
Nebuchadrezzar 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 2:5
My Lord hath become like a foe, hath swallowed up Israel, hath swallowed up all her castles, ruined his strongholds, - and hath caused to abound, in the daughter of Judah, lamentation and mourning.
Lamentations 2:16
All 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!
Micah 3:2-3
Ye haters of right, and lovers of wrong, - tearing away their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Romans 3:13
A sepulchre opened, is their throat, with their tongues, have they used deceit, the poison of asps, is under their lips,