Proverbs 1:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 28:1 : 1 <Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.
  • Ps 124:3 : 3 They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.
  • Jer 51:34 : 34 Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.
  • Lam 2:5 : 5 The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.
  • Lam 2:16 : 16 All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.
  • Mic 3:2-3 : 2 You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones; 3 Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
  • Rom 3:13 : 13 Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:
  • Ps 35:25 : 25 Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.
  • Ps 56:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath.> Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me. 2 My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.
  • Ps 57:3 : 3 He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.
  • Num 16:30-33 : 30 But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that the Lord has not been honoured by these men. 31 And while these words were on his lips, the earth under them was parted in two; 32 And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods. 33 So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.
  • Num 26:10 : 10 And they went down into the open mouth of the earth, together with Korah, when death overtook him and all his band; at the time when two hundred and fifty men were burned in the fire, and they became a sign.
  • Ps 5:9 : 9 For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

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    11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

  • Prov 1:13-14
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    13 Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;

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  • Ps 55:15
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    15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

  • Ps 124:3-4
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    3 They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:

    4 We would have been covered by the waters; the streams would have gone over our soul;

  • Ps 35:25
    77%

    25 Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.

  • Ps 140:9-10
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    9 As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

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  • Ps 63:9
    75%

    9 But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.

  • Ps 17:11-12
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    11 They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

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  • Prov 1:18-19
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    18 And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

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  • Num 16:32-34
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    32 And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods.

    33 So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.

    34 And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth.

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    22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

  • Gen 37:20
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    20 Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.

  • Ps 35:6-8
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    6 Let their way be dark and full of danger; let them be troubled by the angel of the Lord.

    7 For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

    8 Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

  • Ps 141:7
    73%

    7 Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

  • Amos 9:2
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    2 Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:

  • Ps 83:12
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    12 Who have said, Let us take for our heritage the resting-place of God.

  • Ps 143:3
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    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

  • Ezek 32:23
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    23 Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living.

  • Ps 73:19
    72%

    19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • Num 16:30
    72%

    30 But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that the Lord has not been honoured by these men.

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    22 Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.

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    14 For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.

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    9 He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

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    12 Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

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    47 Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.

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    71%

    6 They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

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    71%

    24 Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them.

  • Job 30:6
    71%

    6 They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.

  • Job 24:19
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    19 Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

  • Lam 4:19-20
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    19 Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

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    14 Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

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    15 The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

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    17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

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    5 They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

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    6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

  • Job 17:16
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    16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

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    16 All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.

  • Job 3:22
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    22 Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;

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    5 Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)

  • Ps 21:9
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    9 You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.