Proverbs 1:17

A Conservative Version

For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird,

Cross References

Proverbs 7:23

till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.

Jeremiah 8:7

Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times, and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the law of LORD.

Job 35:11

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

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, [but] Israel does not know; my people does not consider.

Proverbs 1:16

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

Proverbs 1:18

and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.