Proverbs 7:23
until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
22He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
24Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Cross References
Numbers 25:8followed the Israelite into his tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,
Proverbs 9:18But they do not know 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 →