Proverbs 7:23 - Revised Version 1885

²³ Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for 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

For in vain is the net spread, in the eyes of any bird:

Proverbs 6:26

For on account of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

Proverbs 6:32

He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it that would destroy his own soul.

Proverbs 7:22

He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as fetters to the correction of the fool;

Proverbs 9:18

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes 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 falleth suddenly upon them.