Proverbs 7:23

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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.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:17

But a net is thrown in vain before the eyes of those who have wings.

Proverbs 6:26

For the price of a prostitute is only one loaf. Yet the woman seizes the precious soul of a man.

Proverbs 6:32

But whoever is an adulterer, because of the emptiness of his heart, will destroy his own soul.

Proverbs 7:22

Immediately, he follows her, like an ox being led to the sacrifice, and like a lamb acting lasciviously, and not knowing that he is being drawn foolishly into chains,

Proverbs 9:18

And he did not know that giants are there, and that her companions are in the depths of Hell.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I have examined all things in my soul, so that I may know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason, and so that I may recognize the impiety of the foolish, and the error of the imprudent.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Man does not know his own end. But, just as fish are caught with a hook, and birds are captured with a snare, so are men seized in the evil time, when it will suddenly overwhelm them.