Proverbs 7:23 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

²³ Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost 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.

Proverbs 7:23 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 1:17

For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

Proverbs 6:26

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

Proverbs 7:22

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

Proverbs 9:18

But he doesn't know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of She'ol.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.