Proverbs 7:23
Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
24Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes of my mouth.
Cross References
Numbers 25:8And followed ye man of Israel into the tent, and thrust them both through: to wit, the man of Israel, and the woman, through her belly: so the plague ceased from the children of Israel.
Proverbs 9:18But he knoweth not, that ye dead are there, and that her ghestes are in the depth of hell.
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 →