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The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 1, Verse 12

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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
King James Version
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
American Standard Version
Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
New English Translation
We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.
World English Bible
let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
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We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
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Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
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My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
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For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
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And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
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So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
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She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],
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How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?