unfoldingWord_en_tn/pro/01/12.md

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# General Information:
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
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/life]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/like]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/hades]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/pit]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/house]]