Proverbs 7:23

WEB

²³Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

KJV

²³Till a dart^[+] strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

BSB

²³^[+] until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.

FBV

²³until an arrow pierces its liver, like a bird flying into a trap, he's unaware he will pay with his life.

Extra References

Ecclesiastes 9:12

¹²For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

Proverbs 9:18

¹⁸But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Proverbs 1:17

¹⁷For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;

Numbers 25:8-9

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. ⁹Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.