Proverbs 7:23

Bible in Basic English 1965

Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:17

Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

Proverbs 6:26

For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

Proverbs 6:32

He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

Proverbs 7:22

The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

Proverbs 9:18

But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.