Proverbs 7:23 · KJV
“Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it {is} for his life.”
— Proverbs 7:23
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; {straightway: Heb. suddenly}
Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 7 — Context
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; {straightway: Heb. suddenly}
23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it {is} for his life.
24Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so {are} the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Proverbs 9:18
But he knoweth not that the dead {are} there; {and that} her guests {are} in the depths of hell.
Proverbs 1:17
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. {in the...: Heb. in the eyes of every thing that hath a wing}
Numbers 25:8-9
And 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.