Proverbs 7:23
New Living Translation
23 awaiting the arrow that would pierce its heart.
He was like a bird flying into a snare,
little knowing it would cost him his life.
Ecclesiastes 9:12
New Living Translation
12 People can never predict when hard times might come. Like fish in a net or birds in a trap, people are caught by sudden tragedy.
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Proverbs 9:18
New Living Translation
18 But little do they know that the dead are there.
Her guests are in the depths of the grave.[a]
Footnotes
- 9:18 Hebrew in Sheol.
Proverbs 1:17
New Living Translation
17 If a bird sees a trap being set,
it knows to stay away.
Numbers 25:8-9
New Living Translation
8 and rushed after the man into his tent. Phinehas thrust the spear all the way through the man’s body and into the woman’s stomach. So the plague against the Israelites was stopped, 9 but not before 24,000 people had died.
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