Proverbs 7:23
until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:12 For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
- Proverbs 9:18 But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- Numbers 25:8–9 followed the Israelite into the tent, and drove the spear through both of them— through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted, but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.