Devine Scripture

Proverbs 7:23

Proverbs chapter 7 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.

KJV

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.

Context

v.22He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or asone infetters to the correction of the fool;

v.23This passage

v.24Now therefore, mysons, hearken unto me, And attend to the words of my mouth.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 1:17

    For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:

  • Numbers 25:8

    and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:12

    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, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

  • Proverbs 9:18

    But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.