Surely it is useless to spread a net in the eyes of all winged creatures!
Proverbs 7:23 - Tree of Life Version till an arrow pierces its liver. Like a bird darting into a snare, he never considered his own soul! 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. |
Surely it is useless to spread a net in the eyes of all winged creatures!
For on account of a prostitute one is reduced to a loaf of bread; a man’s wife preys on your precious life.
He who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense. Whoever does so destroys himself.
Suddenly he follows her like an ox going to the slaughter, like a stag bounding toward a trap,
But he does not know that the dead are there— her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap, and whose hands are chains. He who pleases God will escape her, but a sinner will be captured by her.
Moreover, no man knows his time: like fish caught in a fatal net or birds caught in a snare, so people are trapped in a time of calamity, that falls upon them suddenly.