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22 Right away he follows her
    and goes like an ox to the slaughter
or bounds like a stag toward the trap[a]

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  1. 7.22 Cn Compare Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain

22 All at once he followed her
    like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer[a] stepping into a noose[b](A)

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  1. Proverbs 7:22 Syriac (see also Septuagint); Hebrew fool
  2. Proverbs 7:22 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.

14 The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,
    so that one may avoid the snares of death.(A)

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14 The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,(A)
    turning a person from the snares of death.(B)

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