Proverbs 7:23

Till a khetz (arrow) strike through his liver; 1 as a tzippor hasteth to the pach (snare), 1 and knoweth not that it is for his nefesh (life). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 goeth after her and followeth immediately, 1 as a shor (ox) goeth to tavach (stock yard, slaughter-house), 1 or as if bound with fetters to the musar (punishment) of the fool; 1

24Pay heed unto me now therefore, O ye banim, 1 and attend to the words of my peh (mouth). 1

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Cross References

Numbers 25:8And he went after the ish Yisroel into the inner tent, and thrust through both of them, the ish Yisroel, and the isha through her belly. So the maggefah (plague) was stopped from the Bnei Yisroel.

Proverbs 9:18But he has no da'as that the dead ones are there; 1 and 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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