14 ends the imagined statement of the sinners who are trying to get others to want to sin.

## Let us swallow them up alive ##

Like an animal might swallow its food, the wicked expect to destroy their victims. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

## like Sheol takes away those who are healthy ##

. The wicked expect to destroy their victims in the same way Sheol, the place of the dead, takes away even healthy people. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])

## purse ##

bag for carrying money