John Gill Commentary Proverbs 1:14

"Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse:" — Proverbs 1:14 (ASV)

Cast in your lot among us
Or "you shall cause your lot to fall among us" ^F21 ; though just entered, as soon as any booty is taken you shall cast lots with us, and have your full share with those that have been longer engaged;

let us all have one purse ;
or "we will all have one purse" ^F23 ; will throw all our booty, taken by us into one common stock, and live upon it comfortably and merrily.

Jarchi represents it as putting it to the young man's option, to do which he would, either to cast lots and take his share separately, or let it be put altogether, and so partake jointly with the rest.

According to Gersom the sense is, that there should be such an exact division made, that there should not be more in one purse than in another; their shares should be equally divided by lot, and their purses should be alike; one should not have more than another:

these are the arguments used by wicked men to allure and ensnare young men to join with them in their sinful ways and practices; from which they are dehorted, as follows.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F21: (lypt Klrwg) "sortem tuam conjicies", Junius & Tremellius; "projicies", Mercerus, Baynus; "jacies", Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens.
• F23: (wnlkl hyhy) "erit nobis omnibus", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version; so Cocceius, Schultens, and the Targum.