Proverbs 7:22

Geneva⁽ⁱ⁾ ²² And he followed her straight wayes, as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter, and as a foole to the stockes for correction,

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straightway. Heb. suddenly. as an.
Acts 14:13
as a.Dr. Grey, making a slight alteration in the text, renders, "as a dog to the chain, and as a deer, till a dart strike through his liver;" and Dr. Hunt, "Or as a hart boundeth into the toils, till a dart strike through his liver." The LXX., Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, concur in this interpretation. The circumstance of the dart, as applied to the deer, is beautiful and proper, which otherwise we are at a loss to dispose of; and this creature, of all others, was the most proper to be noticed on this occasion; for the usual representation which the Egyptians made of a man overthrown by flattery and fair speeches was the picture of a heart captivated and ensnared by the sound of music.
the correction.
Job 13:27; Jeremiah 20:2; Acts 16:24