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# like a bird rushing into a snare
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The naive and unsuspecting way the young man follows the adulteress is compared to the way an animal is unaware of the danger he is in. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
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# until an arrow pierces through his liver
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This passage implies that a hunter has trapped the deer in order to shoot it with arrows. Alternate translation: "until a hunter shoots it in its most important part" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
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# liver
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Here this organ represents a very important part of the deer's body.
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# it would cost him his life
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This is a way of saying that this person will die as a result. Alternate translation: "it would kill him" or "he would die because of it" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])
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