Proverbs 7:23 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ Till a dart strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Till a dart [of passion] pierces and inflames his vitals; then like a bird fluttering straight into the net [he hastens], not knowing that it will cost him his life.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.

Common English Bible

²³ until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird hurrying to the snare, not aware that it will cost him his life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ until the arrow pierces his liver. It is just as if a bird were to hurry into the snare. And he does not know that his actions endanger his own soul.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.

English Standard Version 2016

²³ till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.

Proverbs 7:23 Cross References

Proverbs 1:17

Surely in vain the net is spread In the sight of any bird.

Proverbs 6:26

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: And the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

Proverbs 6:32

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

Proverbs 7:22

He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

Proverbs 9:18

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; And that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

and I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.