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# General Information:
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Verses 12-14 end the imagined statement of the sinners who are trying to entice others to sin.
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# let us swallow them up alive, like Sheol takes away those who are healthy
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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.
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# let us swallow ... like Sheol takes away
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This speaks of the grave as if it were a person that swallows humans and takes them down to the place of the dead.
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# like Sheol takes away those who are healthy
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The wicked expect to destroy their victims in the same way Sheol, the place of the dead, takes away even healthy people.
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# those who go down into the pit
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These words could be: a literal reference to travelers who fall into a deep hole where no one will ever find them or a euphemism for people who die and enter Sheol, the place of the dead. |