Proverbs 7:23

till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

In Context

22He goes after her straightaway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,

24Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

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Cross References

Numbers 25:8And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the sons of Israel.

Proverbs 9:18But he knows not that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:7-24

The Foolish Young Man; Enticements of the Adulteress. 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now… Read the whole commentary →

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