Verse 23

Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.

Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:12 : 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, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
  • Num 25:8-9 : 8 and he 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 stayed from the children of Israel. [ 9 And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
  • Prov 1:17 : 17 For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.