a dart
Numbers 25:8
And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
Numbers 25:9
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
as a bird
Proverbs 1:17
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
knoweth
Proverbs 9:18
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.