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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.”