Proverbs 1:12

Proverbs chapter 1 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

King James Version · 1611

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

American Standard Version · 1901

Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

v.11If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

v.12This passage

v.13We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil;

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Numbers 26:10
and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign.
Numbers 16:30
But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then ye shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah.
Lamentations 2:5
The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Micah 3:2
ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Psalms 143:7
Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
Jeremiah 51:34
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.