Proverbs 7:23

In 11 translations

BSB

until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.

KJV

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

WEB

Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

ASV

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

LSV

Until an arrow splits his liver, || As a bird has hurried to a snare, || And has not known that it [is] for its life.

YLT

Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it [is] for its life.

DBY

till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.

DRC

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.

GNV

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

JPS

Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteneth to the snare — and knoweth not that it is at the cost of his life.

LXXE

and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for his life.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

עַ֤ד יְפַלַּ֪ח חֵ֡ץ כְּֽבֵד֗וֹ כְּמַהֵ֣ר צִפּ֣וֹר אֶל־פָּ֑ח וְלֹֽא־יָ֝דַ֗ע כִּֽי־בְנַפְשׁ֥וֹ הֽוּא׃

LXX-Br

ἢ ὡς ἔλαφος τοξεύματι πεπληγὼς εἰς τὸ ἧπαρ· σπεύδει δὲ ὥσπερ ὄρνεον εἰς παγίδα, οὐκ εἰδὼς ὅτι περὶ ψυχῆς τρέχει.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Ecclesiastes 9:12For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
• Proverbs 9:18But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
• Numbers 25:8–9followed the Israelite into his tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted, but those who died in the…
• Proverbs 1:17How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

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