Proverbs 1:12 (BSB)

let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

From Proverbs 1. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 1:12

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 1:10-19: Here Solomon gives another general rule to young people, in order to their finding out, and keeping in, the paths of wisdom, and that is to take heed of the snare of bad company. David's psalms begin with this caution, and so do Solomon's proverbs; for nothing is more destructive, both to a lively devotion and to a regular conversation (Pro 1:10): "My son, whom...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 1:12: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave,.... The innocent person, and those that are with him, his servants; our gang is so numerous that we can very easily dispatch him and all his attendants, and bury them out of sight at once, as if they were swallowed up alive in a grave, and so no more to be seen or heard of; and...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 1:12: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: (l) As the grave is never satisfied, so the malice of the wicked and their cruelty has no end.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 1:12: Pro 1:12 The first clause of this verse Hitzig translates: “as the pit (swallows) that which lives.” This is untenable, because כּ with the force of a substantive (as instar, likeness) is regarded as a preposition, but not a conjunction (see at Psa 38:14.). חיּים (the living) is connected with נבלעם, and is the accus. of the state (hâl, according to the terminology of the Arab.