Proverbs 7:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For neither doth man knowe his time, but as the fishes which are taken in an euill net, and as the birdes that are caught in the snare: so are the children of men snared in the euill time when it falleth vpon them suddenly.
  • Num 25:8-9 : 8 And followed ye man of Israel into the tent, and thrust them both through: to wit, the man of Israel, and the woman, through her belly: so the plague ceased from the children of Israel. 9 And there died in that plague, foure and twentie thousand.
  • Prov 1:17 : 17 Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But he knoweth not, that ye dead are there, and that her ghestes are in the depth of hell.

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    21Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.

    22And he followed her straight wayes, as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter, and as a foole to the stockes for correction,

  • Job 18:7-10
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    7The steps of his strength shalbe restrained, and his owne counsell shall cast him downe.

    8For hee is taken in the net by his feete, and he walketh vpon the snares.

    9The grenne shall take him by the heele, and the theefe shall come vpon him.

    10A snare is layed for him in the ground, and a trappe for him in the way.

  • Job 20:24-25
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    74%

    24He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shal strike him through.

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  • Prov 6:5
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    5Deliuer thy selfe as a doe from the hande of the hunter, and as a birde from the hande of the fouler.

  • Eccl 9:12
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    12For neither doth man knowe his time, but as the fishes which are taken in an euill net, and as the birdes that are caught in the snare: so are the children of men snared in the euill time when it falleth vpon them suddenly.

  • Prov 1:17-18
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    73%

    17Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:

    18So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.

  • Job 40:24
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    24(40:19) Hee taketh it with his eyes, and thrusteth his nose through whatsoeuer meeteth him.

  • Prov 26:18
    72%

    18As he that faineth himselfe mad, casteth fire brands, arrowes, and mortall things,

  • Amos 3:5
    72%

    5Can a birde fall in a snare vpon the earth, where no fouler is? or will he take vp the snare from the earth, and haue taken nothing at all?

  • Prov 7:24
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    24Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes of my mouth.

  • Ps 64:7
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    7But God will shoote an arrowe at them suddenly: their strokes shalbe at once.

  • Prov 6:26
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    26For because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread, and a woman wil hunt for the precious life of a man.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26(7:28) And I finde more bitter then death the woman whose heart is as nettes and snares, and her handes, as bands: he that is good before God, shalbe deliuered from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

  • Job 39:23
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    23(39:26) Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield.

  • Prov 5:6
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    6She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.

  • Lam 3:12-13
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    12He hath bent his bow & made me a marke for the arrow.

    13Hee caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.

  • Ps 7:13
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    13Hee hath also prepared him deadly weapons: hee will ordeine his arrowes for them that persecute me.

  • Prov 27:8
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    8As a bird that wandreth from her nest, so is a man that wandreth from his owne place.

  • Prov 23:32
    71%

    32In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.

  • Ps 35:8
    71%

    8Let destruction come vpon him at vnwares, and let his net, that he hath laid priuilie, take him: let him fall into the same destruction.

  • Jer 17:11
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    11As the partryche gathereth the yong, which she hath not brought forth: so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leaue them in the middes of his dayes, and at his ende shall bee a foole.

  • Prov 22:5
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    5Thornes and snares are in the way of the frowarde: but he that regardeth his soule, will depart farre from them.

  • Prov 18:7
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    7A fooles mouth is his owne destruction, and his lips are a snare for his soule.

  • Job 16:13
    70%

    13His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, & powreth my gall vpon the ground.

  • Job 28:7
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    7There is a path which no foule hath knowen, neyther hath the kites eye seene it.

  • Ps 10:9
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    9He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.

  • Job 15:23
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    23He wandreth to and fro for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.

  • Prov 7:8
    70%

    8Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,

  • Ps 64:4
    70%

    4To shoote at the vpright in secrete: they shoote at him suddenly, and feare not.

  • Prov 5:23
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    23Hee shall die for faute of instruction, and shall goe astraie through his great follie.

  • Prov 6:15
    69%

    15Therefore shall his destruction come speedily: hee shall be destroyed suddenly without recouerie.

  • Prov 30:19
    69%

    19The way of an eagle in the aire, the way of a serpent vpon a stone, ye way of a ship in ye middes of the sea, and the way of a man with a maide.

  • Prov 19:3
    69%

    3The foolishnesse of a man peruerteth his way, and his heart freateth against the Lord.

  • Job 27:22
    69%

    22And God shal cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand.

  • Prov 22:14
    69%

    14The mouth of strage women is as a deepe pit: he with whom the Lord is angry, shall fall therein.

  • Amos 5:19
    69%

    19As if a man did flee from a lyon, & a beare met him: or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

  • Job 22:10
    69%

    10Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shal suddenly trouble thee:

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  • Job 33:18
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    18And keepe backe his soule from the pit, & that his life should not passe by the sword.

  • Ps 7:15
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    15Hee hath made a pitte and digged it, and is fallen into the pit that he made.

  • Job 24:23
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    23Though men giue him assurance to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.

  • Job 33:22
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    22So his soule draweth to the graue, and his life to the buriers.

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    9As a thorne standing vp in the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fooles.