12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
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Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-19)Here Solomon gives another general rule to young people, in order to their finding out, and keeping in, the paths of wisdom, and that is to take heed of the snare of bad company. David’s psalms begin with this caution, and so do Solomon’s proverbs; for nothing is more destructive, both to a lively devotion and to a regular conversation (Prov. 1:10): “ My son , whom I love, and have a tender concer…
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