Proverbs 7:23

So long tyll she had wounded his lyuer with her dart: lyke as if a byrde hasted to the snare, not knowing that the perill of his life lieth thervpon.

Bible (Bishops')

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

22Sodainly he folowed her, as it were an oxe led to the slaughter, and lyke as it were a foole [that laugheth] when he goeth to the stockes to be punished,

24Heare me now therfore O my chylde, and marke the wordes of my mouth:

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Cross References

Proverbs 9:18And he doth not consider that they are but dead whiche be there, and that her ghestes are in the deepe of hell.

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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