Proverbs 7:22

And he went with her immediately, like an ox that was going to where it would be slaughtered, or like a deer (OR, a fool) that is stepping into a noose/trap,

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

In Context

21So she persuaded him by her enticing/tempting words. She allured him by her smooth/sweet talk.

23where it will remain/stay until someone shoots an arrow into its liver and kills it. He was like a bird that flew into a trap. He did not know that ◄it would cost him his life/he would die as a result►.

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Cross References

Job 13:27It is as though you have fastened my feet with chains to prevent me from walking, and you watch me wherever I walk; It is as though you even look closely at my footprints to see where I have gone.

Acts 14:13Just outside the gates of the city there was a temple where the people worshipped Zeus. The priest who was there heard what Paul and Barnabas had done, so he came to the city gate, where many people had already gathered. He brought two bulls with wreaths of flowers around their necks. The priest and the other people wanted to kill the bulls as part of a ceremony to worship Paul and Barnabas.

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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