All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught in fetters—the young man's movement from seduction toward transgression, compared to an animal unknowingly approaching its own destruction. This stark comparison reveals the truth that wisdom perceives: the seduced man moves toward destruction in the very act he believes leads to pleasure, precisely paralleling an animal's ignorance of slaughter. The dual imagery—the ox moving toward slaughter and the stag caught in restraints—suggests entrapment and the loss of freedom and life. This verse marks the transition from seduction's promises to the reality of consequence, revealing the gap between the transgressor's perception and wisdom's truth.

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