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21 She persuades him with the greatness of her teachings;
    with her smooth lips she compels him.
22 He goes after her suddenly;
    like an ox to the slaughter he goes,
    and like a stag to the instruction of a fool,
23 until an arrow pierces his entrails,[a]
    like a bird rushing into a snare,
    but he does not know that it will cost him his life.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 7:23 Literally “heaviness,” often referring to the liver
  2. Proverbs 7:23 Literally “it is against his life”