Proverbs 7:23

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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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; 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 tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. 9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
  • Prov 1:17 : 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell.

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