Proverbs 7:23

Modern English Version

until an arrow pierces his liver; as a bird darting into the snare, he did not know that it would cost him his life.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:17

Surely, in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird;

Proverbs 6:26

for the price of a prostitute leaves a man with a loaf of bread, and an adulteress preys upon his precious life.

Proverbs 6:32

But he who commits adultery lacks understanding; he who does it destroys his own soul.

Proverbs 7:22

Immediately he followed her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,

Proverbs 9:18

But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death a woman whose heart is like snares and nets, whose hands are like prison cells. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For no one knows his appointed time. Like fish caught in a cruel net, like birds caught in a snare, so people are ensnared in an evil time, when it suddenly falls on them.