Proverbs 7:23 (BSB)

until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.

From Proverbs 7. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 7:23

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 7:6-23: Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such a story as this would serve the lewd profane poets of our age to make a play of, and the harlot with them would be a heroine; nothing...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 7:23: Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children,.... The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, read, in the singular number, "my son", in the same manner as the chapter begins; but it is in the plural number in the Hebrew text; and so read the Targum and Syriac version, "children", the children of Solomon; not only those of his own body, but all such that...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 7:22-23: Pro 7:22-23 What followed: - 22 So he goes after her at once As an ox which goeth to the slaughter-house, And as one bereft of reason to the restraint of fetters, 23 As a bird hastens to the net, Without knowing that his life is at stake - Till the arrow pierces his liver. The part.