Proverbs 7:23
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23 till an arrow pierces its liver;
as (A)a bird rushes into a snare;
he does not know that it will cost him his life.
Ecclesiastes 9:12
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12 For man (A)does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and (B)like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are (C)snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.
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Proverbs 9:18
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Footnotes
- Proverbs 9:18 Hebrew Rephaim
Proverbs 1:17
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17 (A)For in vain is a net spread
in the sight of any bird,
Numbers 25:8-9
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8 and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped. 9 Nevertheless, (A)those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
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