²³ Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

¹² Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.

⁸ And went after the man of Israel into the tent, driving the spear through the two of them, through the man of Israel and through the stomach of the woman. So the disease was stopped among the children of Israel.

⁹ But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.

¹⁷ Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

¹⁸ But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.