Proverbs 1:17 - The Scriptures 2009

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

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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

teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil, And they hurry to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:18

But they lie in wait for their own blood, They ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 7:23

Till an arrow strikes through his liver; Like a bird rushing into a snare, And did not know it would take his life.

Isaiah 1:3

An ox knows its owner and a donkey its master’s crib – Yisra’ĕl does not know, My people have not understood.”

Jeremiah 8:7

“Even a stork in the heavens knows her appointed times. And a turtledove, and a swallow, and a thrush guard the time of their coming. But My people do not know the right-ruling of יהוה.