Proverbs 7:23

The English Standar Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 1:17

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

Proverbs 6:26

for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,[7] but a married woman[8] hunts down a precious life.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery lacks 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[5]

Proverbs 9:18

But he does not know that the dead[4] are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find something 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.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

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