Proverbs 7:23
Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
World Messianic Bible
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In Context
22He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
24Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
Cross References
Numbers 25:8He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.
Proverbs 9:18But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits 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 →