Proverbs 1:17
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Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
In other translations
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Job 35:11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
- Jeremiah 8:7Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
- Proverbs 7:23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.
- Isaiah 1:3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
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