Proverbs 7:23
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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)
Ecclesiastes 9:12
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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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Proverbs 9:18
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Footnotes
- 9.18 Heb shades
Proverbs 1:17
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17 For in vain is the net baited
while the bird is looking on;
Numbers 25:8-9
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8 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. 9 Nevertheless those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.(A)
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