Proverbs 7:23
until an arrow pierces its liver, like a bird flying into a trap, he's unaware he will pay with his life.
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22He followed her right away, like an ox to the slaughter. Like a stag that's caught in a snare
24So now listen to me, my sons, and pay attention to what I'm saying.
Cross References
Numbers 25:8and followed the man into his tent. There Phinehas drove the spear through both of them, through the Israelite and on into the woman's stomach. This action stopped the plague that had started to kill the Israelites,
Proverbs 9:18But they don't know that the dead are there, that those she's invited are in the depths of the grave.
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 →