²³ Until an arrow strikes through his liver, As a bird hurries to the snare, And doesn't know that it will cost his life.

¹² For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

⁸ and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

⁹ Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

¹⁷ For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

¹⁸ But he doesn't know that the dead are there, That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.