en_tn/pro/01/12.md

# 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