# General Information: Verses 12-14 end the imagined statement of the sinners who are trying to entice others to sin. # let us swallow them up alive, like Sheol takes away those who are healthy The sinners speak of murdering innocent people as if they were Sheol and they would take a living and healthy person down to the place where dead people go. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]]) # let us swallow ... like Sheol takes away This speaks of the grave as if it were a person that swallows humans and takes them down to the place of the dead. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-personification]]) # like Sheol takes away those who are healthy The wicked expect to destroy their victims in the same way Sheol, the place of the dead, takes away even healthy people. # those who fall into the pit These words could be 1) a literal reference to travelers who fall into a deep hole where no one will ever find them or 2) a euphemism for people who die and enter Sheol, the place of the dead. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-euphemism]])