Proverbs 1:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ For in vain is the net baited while the bird is looking on;

More versions

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.

Proverbs 1:17 Cross References

Proverbs 7:23

until an arrow pierces its entrails. He is like a bird rushing into a snare, not knowing that it will cost him his life.

Jeremiah 8:7

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

Job 35:11

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

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know; my people do not understand.

Proverbs 1:16

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

Proverbs 1:18

yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves! and set an ambush—for their own lives!