Proverbs 1:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² like Sheol let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the Pit:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; And whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Let us swallow them up alive as does Sheol (the place of the dead), and whole, as those who go down into the pit [of the dead];

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

Common English Bible

¹² Let’s swallow up the living like the grave— whole, like those who go down into the pit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Let us swallow him alive, like Hell, and whole, like one descending into the pit.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.

Proverbs 1:12 Cross References

Psalm 124:3

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

Psalm 143:7

Make haste to answer me, O Lord! My spirit fails! Hide not thy face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the Pit.

Psalm 28:1

To thee, O Lord, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the Pit.

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say to themselves, “Aha, we have our heart's desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”

Psalm 5:9

For there is no truth in their mouth; their heart is destruction, their throat is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 57:3

He will send from heaven and save me, he will put to shame those who trample upon me. Selah God will send forth his steadfast love and his faithfulness!

Proverbs 1:13

we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with spoil;

Jeremiah 51:34

“Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has rinsed me out.

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: “We have destroyed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!”

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become like an enemy, he has destroyed Israel; he has destroyed all its palaces, laid in ruins its strongholds; and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Numbers 26:10

and 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 warning.

Romans 3:13

“Their throat is an open grave, they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.”