KJV King James Version
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
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Proverbs 1:17
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
WEB World English Bible
For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:
ASV American Standard Version
For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 1
14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
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Job 35:11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?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.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.Isaiah 1:3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
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