SEV Biblia, Chapter 7:23
de tal manera que la saeta traspasó su hígado; como el ave que se apresura al lazo, y no sabe que es contra su vida.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 23. Till a dart strike through his liver , etc.] The fountain of blood, and so of life; which, being pierced through and poured out, is certain death, ( Lamentations 2:11); the meaning is, till he is slain either by the hand of God, or by the civil magistrate, or by the jealous husband; and be thrust through by him, as Zimri and Cozbi were by Phinehas. The “liver” may be particularly mentioned, not only for the reason before given, but because it is the seat of lust f203 ; so he is stricken in the part where his lust begins, where he has been smitten by Cupid’s darts: or this dart through the liver may denote some disease, infecting the blood through sinful lust. The Targum is, “as an hart into whose liver an arrow flies;” or is wounded by an arrow in the liver, as the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions: and so the meaning is, that this young man went as swiftly after the harlot as a hart does when it is wounded; as a bird hasteth to the snare ; it has its eye upon the bait, and flies swiftly to that, insensible of the snare that is laid for it; and knoweth not that it [is] for his life ; the bird knows not that the snare is set for its life, as Jarchi; or the fool knows not that it is for his soul; that it shall die, which hates correction, as Aben Ezra. The man that goes after the harlot knows not, or does not consider, that it is to the destruction of his precious and immortal soul; so the Targum, “he knows not that it tends to the death of his soul;” and to the same sense the Syriac and Arabic versions; the second death, which adulterers and idolaters shall have their part in, ( Revelation 21:8). The souls of men, and the ruin of them, are what the whore of Rome deals in, ( Revelation 18:13); she goes into perdition, into the bottomless pit, herself, and carries all her worshippers with her, ( Revelation 17:8 14:9-11).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-27 - Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after Solomon has se before his eyes in so lively and plain a manner, the danger of eve going near them? Then is he as the man who would dance on the edge of lofty rock, when he has just seen another fall headlong from the sam place. The misery of self-ruined sinners began in disregard to God' blessed commands. We ought daily to pray that we may be kept from running into temptation, else we invite the enemies of our souls to spread snares for us. Ever avoid the neighbourhood of vice. Beware of sins which are said to be pleasant sins. They are the more dangerous because they most easily gain the heart, and close it agains repentance. Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish an tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
עד 5704 יפלח 6398 חץ 2671 כבדו 3516 כמהר 4116 צפור 6833 אל 413 פח 6341 ולא 3808 ידע 3045 כי 3588 בנפשׁו 5315 הוא׃ 1931
