Proverbs 7:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ till an arrow pierces its entrails; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know 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.

Proverbs 7:23 Krydshenvisninger

Proverbs 1:17

For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird;

Proverbs 6:26

for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man's very life.

Proverbs 6:32

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

Proverbs 7:22

All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast

Proverbs 9:18

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

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters; he who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man does not know his time. Like fish which are taken in an evil net, and like birds which are caught in a snare, so the sons of men are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.