Proverbs 7:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ until an arrow pierces its entrails. He is like a bird rushing into a snare, not knowing that it will cost him his life.

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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.

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.

Proverbs 7:23 Krydshenvisninger

Proverbs 1:17

For in vain is the net baited while the bird is looking on;

Proverbs 6:26

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Proverbs 6:32

But he who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.

Proverbs 7:22

Right away he follows her and goes like an ox to the slaughter or bounds like a stag toward the trap

Proverbs 9:18

But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For no one can anticipate one’s time. Like fish taken in a cruel net or like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.