Proverbs 7:23

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

until an arrow pierces its   liver, like a bird darting into a snare   – he doesn’t know it will cost him his life.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For certainly no one knows his time:  like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap,  so people are trapped in an evil time  as it suddenly falls on them.

Proverbs 9:18

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Proverbs 1:17

It is useless to spread a net where any bird can see it,

Proverbs 6:26

For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man  goes after a precious life.

Proverbs 6:32

The one who commits adultery  lacks sense; whoever does so destroys himself.

Proverbs 7:22

He follows her impulsively like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding towards a trap

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death  the woman who is a trap:  her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.