Proverbs 7:23

New American Bible - revised edition

till an arrow pierces its liver; Like a bird that rushes into a snare, unaware that his life is at stake.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:17

In vain a net is spread right under the eyes of any bird—

Proverbs 6:26

For the price of a harlot may be scarcely a loaf of bread, But a married woman is a trap for your precious life.

Proverbs 6:32

But those who commit adultery have no sense; those who do it destroy themselves.

Proverbs 7:22

He follows her impulsively, like an ox that goes to slaughter; Like a stag that bounds toward the net,

Proverbs 9:18

Little do they know that the shades are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol!

Ecclesiastes 7:26

More bitter than death I find the woman who is a hunter’s trap, whose heart is a snare, whose hands are prison bonds. The one who pleases God will be delivered from her, but the one who displeases will be entrapped by her.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Human beings no more know their own time than fish taken in the fatal net or birds trapped in the snare; like these, mortals are caught when an evil time suddenly falls upon them. The Uncertain Future and the Sages.