Proverbs 7:23

New English Translation

till an arrow pierces his liver – like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:17

Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,

Proverbs 6:26

for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.

Proverbs 6:32

A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks wisdom, whoever does it destroys his own life.

Proverbs 7:22

Suddenly he went after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare

Proverbs 9:18

But they do not realize that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Surely, no one knows his appointed time! Like fish that are caught in a deadly net, and like birds that are caught in a snare – just like them, all people are ensnared at an unfortunate time that falls upon them suddenly.