Proverbs 7:23
Till a dart striketh through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
24Now therefore hearken to me, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Cross References
Numbers 25:8And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly: So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
Proverbs 9:18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths 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 →