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# like an ox going ... into a snare
The naive and unsuspecting way the young man follows the adulteress is compared to the way three animals are unaware of the danger they are in. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
# until an arrow pierces through its liver
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/translate/figs-explicit]])
# liver
Here this organ represents a very important part of the deer's body.
# it would cost his life
This is a way of saying that this person will die as a result. Alternate translation: "it would kill him" or "he would die soon" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])