Proverbs 7:23

New International Reader's Version

until an arrow struck its liver. He was like a bird rushing into a trap. Little did he know it would cost him his life!

Cross References

Proverbs 1:17

How useless it is to spread a net where every bird can see it!

Proverbs 6:26

A prostitute can be bought for only a loaf of bread. But another man’s wife hunts your very life.

Proverbs 6:32

A man who commits adultery has no sense. Anyone who does it destroys himself.

Proverbs 7:22

All at once he followed her. He was like an ox going to be killed. He was like a deer stepping into a trap

Proverbs 9:18

But they don’t know that dead people are there. They don’t know that her guests are deep in the place of the dead.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

A woman who hunts a man down is more painful than death. Her heart is like a trap. Her hands are like chains. A man who pleases God will try to get away from her. But she will trap a sinner.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

No one knows when trouble will come to them. Fish are caught in nets. Birds are taken in traps. And people are trapped by hard times that come when they don’t expect them.