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23     until an arrow pierces its entrails.
He is like a bird rushing into a snare,
    not knowing that it will cost him his life.(A)

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12 For no one can anticipate one’s time. Like fish taken in a cruel net or like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.(A)

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18 But they do not know that the dead[a] are there,
    that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 9.18 Heb shades

17 For in vain is the net baited
    while the bird is looking on;

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he went after the Israelite man into the tent and pierced the two of them, the Israelite and the woman, through the belly. So the plague was stopped among the Israelites. Nevertheless those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.(A)

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