Proverbs 7:23 - Tree of Life Version

²³ till an arrow pierces its liver. Like a bird darting into a snare, he never considered his own soul!

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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

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Surely it is useless to spread a net in the eyes of all winged creatures!

Proverbs 6:26

For on account of a prostitute one is reduced to a loaf of bread; a man’s wife preys on your precious life.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense. Whoever does so destroys himself.

Proverbs 7:22

Suddenly he follows her like an ox going to the slaughter, like a stag bounding toward a trap,

Proverbs 9:18

But he does not know that the dead are there— her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

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.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

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.