SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:12
los tragaremos vivos como el sepulcro, y enteros, como los que caen en un abismo;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:12
Verse 12. Let us swallow them up alive ] Give them as hasty a death as if the earth were suddenly to swallow them up. This seems to refer to the destruction of a whole village. Let us destroy man, woman, and child; and then we may seize on and carry away the whole of their property, and the booty will be great.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. Let us swallow them up alive as the grave , etc.] The innocent person, and those that are with him, his servants; our gang is so numerous that we can very easily dispatch him and all his attendants, and bury them out of sight at once, as if they were swallowed up alive in a grave, and so no more to be seen or heard of; and consequently we shall be in the utmost safety and security, there being no traces of what is done, nor any left to make a relation of it, or to give any information of us, or to pursue us; and whole, as those that go down into the pit ; who though whole and in perfect health, shall in a moment be destroyed and cast into the pit, being first plundered of all the riches they have about them; for this swallowing them up alive and whole, which is an allusion to a beast of prey swallowing up another creature all at once, not only intends their cruelty in taking away life, but their rapaciousness in seizing upon their substance.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-19 - Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the mor to answer for. How cautious young people should be! "Consent thou not. Do not say as they say, nor do as they do, or would have thee to do have no fellowship with them. Who could think that it should be pleasure to one man to destroy another! See their idea of worldl wealth; but it is neither substance, nor precious. It is the ruinou mistake of thousands, that they overvalue the wealth of this world. Me promise themselves in vain that sin will turn to their advantage. The way of sin is down-hill; men cannot stop themselves. Would young people shun temporal and eternal ruin, let them refuse to take one step i these destructive paths. Men's greediness of gain hurries them upo practices which will not suffer them or others to live out half their days. What is a man profited, though he gain the world, if he lose his life? much less if he lose his soul?
Original Hebrew
נבלעם 1104 כשׁאול 7585 חיים 2416 ותמימים 8549 כיורדי 3381 בור׃ 953
