Proverbs 7:23
Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it [is] for its life.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
24And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.
Cross References
Numbers 25:8and goeth in after the man of Israel unto the hollow place, and pierceth them both, the man of Israel and the woman — unto her belly, and the plague is restrained from the sons of Israel;
Proverbs 9:18And he hath not known that Rephaim [are] there, In deep places of Sheol her invited ones!
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 →