Proverbs 7:23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised until an arrow pierces its liver, like a bird darting into a snare – he doesn’t know it will cost him his life. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Till a dart strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Till a dart [of passion] pierces and inflames his vitals; then like a bird fluttering straight into the net [he hastens], not knowing that it will cost him his life. American Standard Version (1901) Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life. Common English Bible until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird hurrying to the snare, not aware that it will cost him his life. Catholic Public Domain Version until the arrow pierces his liver. It is just as if a bird were to hurry into the snare. And he does not know that his actions endanger his own soul. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger. |
For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man goes after a precious life.
The one who commits adultery lacks sense; whoever does so destroys himself.
He follows her impulsively like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding towards a trap
But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap: her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.
For certainly no one knows his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.