²³ Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

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

¹⁸ But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

¹⁷ Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

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 stayed from the children of Israel.

⁹ And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.