Albert Barnes Commentary Proverbs 7:22

"He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool;" — Proverbs 7:22 (ASV)

As a fool ... - literally, “As a shackle to the correction of a fool,” the order of which is inverted in the King James Version. The Septuagint, followed by the Syriac Version, has another reading, and interprets the clause: “As a dog, enticed by food, goes to the chain that is to bind him, so does the youth go to the temptress.” None of the attempts of commentators to get a meaning out of the present text are in any way satisfactory.