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Proverbs 1:12

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12Like Sheol,g we will swallow them alive

and whole, like those who descend to the pit.h

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Footnotes

  1. gA term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld
  2. hLiterally “like the descenders of a pit”

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In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

like Sheol let us swallow them alive,

and whole, like those who go down to the pit;

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

let’s swallow them alive, like the grave,

and whole, like those who go down to the pit;

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Let’s swallow them alive, like Sheol,

whole, like those who go down to the Pit.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

Let’s swallow them alive, like the grave;

let’s swallow them whole, like those who go down to the pit of death.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

KJV 1900King James Version

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave;

And whole, as those that go down into the pit:

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