Proverbs 7:23
and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for his life.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
24Now then, my son, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Cross References
Numbers 25:8and went in after the Israelitish man into the + 25:8 Gr. furnace, κάμινον. Trom renders lupanar. Heb. הקבה.chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelitish man, and the woman through her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
Proverbs 9:18d that thou mayest live long, and years of life may be added to thee.
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 →