Proverbs 7:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

until an arrow pierces its entrails. He is like a bird rushing into a snare, not knowing that it will cost him his life.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:17

For in vain is the net baited while the bird is looking on;

Proverbs 6:26

for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.

Proverbs 6:32

But he who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.

Proverbs 7:22

Right away he follows her and goes like an ox to the slaughter or bounds like a stag toward the trap

Proverbs 9:18

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

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For no one can anticipate one’s time. Like fish taken in a cruel net or like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.