Verse 23

Until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird rushing into a trap, not realizing it will cost him his life.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For no one knows their time. Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so are people ensnared by an evil time when it suddenly falls upon them.
  • Num 25:8-9 : 8 followed the Israelite man into the tent, and drove the spear through both of them—the Israelite man and the woman—into her belly. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped. 9 But those who died in the plague numbered twenty-four thousand.
  • Prov 1:17 : 17 Surely in vain is the net spread in sight of any bird,
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.