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Verses 12-14 end the imagined statement of the sinners who are trying to entice others to sin.
Let us swallow them up alive, like Sheol takes away those who are healthy
The sinners speak of murdering innocent people as if they were Sheol and they would take a living and healthy person down to the place where dead people go. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
Let us swallow ... like Sheol takes away
This speaks of the grave as if it were a person that swallows humans and takes them down to the place of the dead. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification)
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.
make them like those who fall into the pit
Possible meanings are 1) this refers to travelers who fall into a deep hole where no one will ever find them or 2) here "pit" is another word that means Sheol or the place where dead people go.
Throw in your lot with us
This is an idiom. AT: "Join us" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)
we will all have one purse together
Here "purse" represents everything that they steal. AT: "we will equally share everything that we steal" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)
purse
a bag for carrying money