“He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 7 contains 27 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.