THEOSISProverbs 7:23Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.
עַ֤ד יְפַלַּ֪ח חֵ֡ץ כְּֽבֵד֗וֹ כְּמַהֵ֣ר צִפּ֣וֹר אֶל־פָּ֑ח וְלֹֽא־יָ֝דַ֗ע כִּֽי־בְנַפְשׁ֥וֹ הֽוּא׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Eccl 9:12Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them.
- Prov 9:18And he did not know that giants are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
- Prov 1:17But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
- Num 25:8Went in after the Israelite into the brothel house, and thrust both of them through together, to wit, the man and the woman in the genital parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel.
- Num 25:9And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.