Proverbs 1:17 - Revised Standard Version

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

Dugang nga mga bersyon

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁷ It’s useless to cast a net in the sight of a bird.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ But a net is thrown in vain before the eyes of those who have wings.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.

Proverbs 1:17 Cross References

Job 35:11

who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

Proverbs 1:16

for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:18

but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they set an ambush for their own lives.

Proverbs 7:23

till an arrow pierces its entrails; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.”

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the stork in the heavens knows her times; and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of the Lord.