Proverbs 7:23
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Cross-reference
Proverbs 1:17 says a bird sees the net and avoids it, contrasting sharply with the bird here that rushes into the snare unknowingly.
Proverbs 9:18 says the foolish man does not know the dead are there, identical ignorance of death as the man here who doesn't know the snare.
Proverbs 5:4 reveals the adulteress's end as bitter and sharp — same deadly outcome described with different imagery.
Proverbs 5:11 depicts the final groaning and wasting of flesh — the same tragic end for the one who succumbs to adultery.
Proverbs 6:32 states flatly that the adulterer destroys himself — the same self-destruction pictured by the arrow and snare.
Proverbs 22:3 contrasts the prudent who take refuge with the simple who pay the penalty — the young man is the simple who ignored the danger.
Proverbs 11:19 sums up the principle: pursuing evil finds death — the general truth behind the young man's fate.
Proverbs 13:20 warns that a companion of fools suffers harm — exactly what happens to the young man walking with the adulteress.
Ecclesiastes 9:12 again uses 'birds caught in a snare' to describe sudden calamity, directly paralleling the bird image in this verse.
Psalm 91:3 promises rescue from the fowler's snare — opposite outcome to the bird caught in Proverbs 7:23's trap.