Proverbs 1:12

Authorized King James Version

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

— Proverbs 1:12, Authorized King James Version

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Proverbs 1 — Context

9

For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

10

¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

11

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

12

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

13

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

14

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

15

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: