Proverbs 7:23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²³ until an arrow pierces its   liver, like a bird darting into a snare   – he doesn’t know it will cost him his life.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ 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

²³ 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)

²³ 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

²³ 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

²³ 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

²³ 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.

Proverbs 7:23 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 1:17

It is useless to spread a net where any bird can see it,

Proverbs 6:26

For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man  goes after a precious life.

Proverbs 6:32

The one who commits adultery  lacks sense; whoever does so destroys himself.

Proverbs 7:22

He follows her impulsively like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding towards a trap

Proverbs 9:18

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

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.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

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.