Proverbs 7:23
Until an arrow strikes through his liver, 2 as a bird hurries to the snare, 2 and does not know that it will cost his life. 1
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22He followed her immediately, 2 as an ox goes to the slaughter, 2 as a fool stepping into a noose. 1
24Now therefore, sons, sh'ma ·hear obey· me. 2 Pay attention to the words of my mouth. 1
Cross References
Numbers 25:8He went after the man of Israel [God prevails] into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel [God prevails], and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel [God prevails].
Proverbs 9:18But he does not know that the departed spirits are there, 2 that her guests are in the depths of Sheol ·Place of the dead·.
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 →