Proverbs Chapter 7 verse 23 Holy Bible
Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.
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Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.
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till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.
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Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
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Until an arrow strikes through his liver, As a bird hurries to the snare, And doesn't know that it will cost his life.
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Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it `is' for its life.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - Till a dart strike through his liver. This clause would be better taken with the preceding verse, as in the Septuagint, or else placed in a parenthesis; then the following clause introduces a new come parison. The youth follows the harlot till his liver, the seat of the passions, is thoroughly inflamed, or till fatal consequences ensue. Theocr., 'Id,' 11:15 - Ἔχθιστον ἔχων ὑποκάρδιον ἕλκοςΚύπριος ἐκ μεγάλας τὸ οἱ ἥπατι πᾶξε βέλεμνον."Beneath his breastA hateful wound he bore by Cypris given,Who in his liver fixed the fatal dart." Delitzsch would relegate the hemistich to the end of the verse, making it denote the final result of mad and illicit love. The sense thus gained is satisfactory, but the alteration is quite arbitrary, and unsupported by ancient authority. As a bird hasteth to the snare. This is another comparison (see Proverbs 1:17, the first proverb in the book, and note there). And knoweth not that it is for his life; i.e. the infatuated youth does not consider that his life is at stake, that he is bringing upon himself, by his vicious rashness, temporal and spiritual ruin (Proverbs 5:11).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) Till a dart strike through his liver.--These words must be taken in a parenthesis.That it is for his life.--i.e., at the cost of it, when "his flesh and body are consumed," and remorse has seized upon him (Proverbs 5:11).
