Proverbs 1:17

WEB

¹⁷For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;

KJV

¹⁷Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

BSB

¹⁷How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

FBV

¹⁷There's no point in trying to lure birds into a net when they can see it.

Extra References

Proverbs 7:23

²³Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

Job 35:11

¹¹who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Jeremiah 8:7

⁷Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know the LORD’s law.

Isaiah 1:3

³The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”