Proverbs 7:23

Coverdale Bible (1535)

so longe till she hath wounded his lyuer with hir darte: like as yf a byrde haisted to the snare, not knowinge that the parell of his life lyeth there vpo.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For a man knoweth not his tyme, but like as the fyshe are take with the angle, and as the byrdes are catched wt the snare: Eue so are men taken in the perilous tyme, when it commeth sodenly vpon them.
  • Num 25:8-9 : 8 & wente after the man of Israel in to the whore house, & thrust the thorow, both the man of Israel and the woman, eue thorow the bely of her. Then ceassed the plage from the children of Israel, 9 and there were slayne in the plage foure and twentye thousande.
  • Prov 1:17 : 17 But in vayne is ye net layed forth before the byrdes eyes.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But they cosider not that death is there, and that hir gestes go downe to hell.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:21-22
    2 verses
    82%

    21Thus with many swete wordes she ouercame him, and with hir flateringe lippes she wanne him.

    22Immediatly he foloweth her, as it were an oxeled to the slaughter (and like as it were to the stockes, where fooles are punyshed)

  • Job 18:7-10
    4 verses
    74%

    7His presumptuous goinges shal be kepte in, and his owne councell shal cast him downe.

    8For his fete shalbe taken in the nett, and he shal walke in the snare.

    9His fote shalbe holden in the gilder, and the thurstie shal catch him.

    10The snare is layed for him in the grounde, and a pytfall in the waye.

  • Job 20:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    24so that yf he fle the yron weapens, he shall be shott with the stele bowe.

    25The arowe shal be taken forth, & go out at his backe, and a glisteringe swearde thorow ye gall of him, feare shal come vpo him.

  • 5Saue thy self as a doo fro ye honde, & as a byrde fro the hode of the fouler.

  • 12For a man knoweth not his tyme, but like as the fyshe are take with the angle, and as the byrdes are catched wt the snare: Eue so are men taken in the perilous tyme, when it commeth sodenly vpon them.

  • Prov 1:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17But in vayne is ye net layed forth before the byrdes eyes.

    18Yee they the selues laye wayte one for anothers bloude, and one of the wolde slaye another.

  • 24Who darre laye honde vpon him openly, and vndertake to catch him? Or, who darre put an hoke thorow his nose, ad laye a snare for him?

  • 18Like as one shuteth deadly arowes and dartes out of a preuy place, euen so doth a dyssembler with his neghboure,

  • 5Doth a byrde fall in a snare vpo ye earth where no fouler is? Taketh a man his snare vp from the grounde, afore he catche somwhat?

  • 24Heare me now therfore (o my sonne) and marcke the wordes of my mouth.

  • 7But God shall sodenly shute with an arowe, yt they shall be wounded.

  • 26An harlot wil make a ma to begg his bred, but a maried woman wil hunt for ye precious life.

  • 26And I founde, that a woman is bytterer then death: for she is a very angle, hir hert is a nett, and hir handes are cheynes. Who so pleaseth God shal escape from her, but the synner will be taken wt her.

  • 23Though the quyuers rattle vpon him, though the speare and shilde glistre:

  • 6She regardeth not the path of life, so vnstedfast are hir wayes, that thou canst not knowe them.

  • Lam 3:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marck to shute at.

    13The arowes of his quyuer hath he shot, euen in to my reynes.

  • 13He hath prepayred him the weapens of death, & ordened his arowes to destroye.

  • 8He that oft tymes flytteth, is like a byrde yt forsaketh hir nest.

  • 32It goeth downe softly, but at the last it byteth like a serpet, and styngeth as an Adder.

  • 8Let a sodane destruccio come vpon him vnawarres, and ye nett that he hath layed priuely, catch him self, that he maye fall in to his owne myschefe.

  • 11The disceatfull maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no yonge: He commeth by riches, but not rightuously. In the myddest off his life must he leaue them behinde him, and at the last be founde a very foole.

  • 5Speares and snares are in ye waye of the frowarde, but he yt wil kepe his soule, let him fle fro soch.

  • 7A fooles mouth is his owne destruccion, and his lippes are ye snare for his owne soule.

  • 13He hath compased me rounde aboute with his dartes, he hath wounded my loynes, & not spared. My bowels hath he poured vpon the grounde.

  • 7There is a waye also that the byrdes knowe not, that no vulturs eye hath sene:

  • 9yee to rauish the poore, when he hath gotten him in to his nett.

  • 23When he goeth forth to get his lyuinge, he thinketh planely, that the daye of darcknesse is at honde.

  • 8goinge ouer the stretes, by the corner in the waye towarde the harlottes house

  • 4That they maye preuely hurte ye innocet, & sodely to hit him wt out eny feare.

  • 23Because he wolde not be refourmed, he shal dye: and for his greate foolishnesse he shal be destroyed.

  • 15Therfore shal his destruccion come hastely vpo him, sodenly shal he be all tobroken, and not be healed.

  • 19The waye of an Aegle in ye ayre, ye waye of a serpent ouer ye stone, ye waye of a shippe in ye see, & ye waye of a ma wt a yonge woma.

  • 3Foolishnesse maketh a man to go out of his waye, & then is his herte vnpacient agaynst the LORDE.

  • 22It ru?sheth in vpon him, and spareth him not, he maye not escape from the power therof.

  • 14The mouth of an harlot is a depe pytt, wherin he falleth that ye LORDE is angrie withall.

  • 19Yee like as when a ma runeth fro a lyon, and a Beer meteth with him: or, whe he commeth into the house, and leeneth his honde vpon the wall, a serpent byteth him.

  • 10Therfore art thou compased aboute with snares on euery syde, & sodely vexed wt feare.

  • 28He starteth not awaye for him that bendeth the bowe, & as for slynge stones, he careth as moch for stubble as for them

  • 18kepeth his soule from destruccion, & his life from ye swearde.

  • 15He hath grauen and dygged vp a pytte, but he shal fall himself in to ye pytte yt he hath made.

  • 23And though they might be safe, yet they wil not receaue it, for their eyes loke vpon their owne wayes.

  • 22His soule draweth on to destruccion, & his life to death.

  • 9A parable in a fooles mouth, is like a thorne yt pricketh a droncken man in ye hande.