Proverbs 7:23

American King James Version (1999)

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.

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 whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.

Proverbs 7:22

He goes after her straightway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

Proverbs 9:18

But he knows 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: whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also knows 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 falls suddenly on them.