Proverbs 7:23

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

till an arrow pierces its entrails; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man does not know his time. Like fish which are taken in an evil net, and like birds which are caught in a snare, so the sons of men are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.

Proverbs 9:18

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

Proverbs 1:17

For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird;

Proverbs 6:26

for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man's very life.

Proverbs 6:32

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

Proverbs 7:22

All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters; he who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.