Add parallel Print Page Options

11     when they say:
        “Come with us.
        Let’s set up a deadly ambush.
        Let’s secretly wait for the innocent just for fun.
12         Let’s swallow up the living like the grave[a]
        whole, like those who go down into the pit.
13         We’ll find all sorts of precious wealth;
        we’ll fill our houses with plunder.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 1:12 Heb Sheol

11 If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for dahm, let us lurk secretly for the naki (innocent, harmless) chinnom (without cause);

12 Let us swallow them up chayyim (alive) like She’ol; and whole, as those that go down into the bor (pit);

13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill bateinu (our houses) with plunder;

Read full chapter