Proverbs 1:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

As the grave; which speedily covers and consumes dead bodies. See Psalms 55:15, Psalms 124:3. We shall do our work quickly, easily, and without fear of discovery. Into the pit; into some deep pit, into which a traveller falls unawares, and is utterly lost, and never discovered.

Proverbs 1:12

12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: