Proverbs 7:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

Until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and does not know that it is for his life.

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  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also does not know his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls 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 stopped among the children of Israel. 9 And those who died in the plague were twenty-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 does not know that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

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