Proverbs 7:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 until an arrow pierces its entrails. He is like a bird rushing into a snare, not knowing that it will cost him his life. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.
But he who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.
Right away he follows her and goes like an ox to the slaughter or bounds like a stag toward the trap
But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
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.
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.