Proverbs 1:17

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Job 35:11

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Proverbs 1:16

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

Proverbs 1:18

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives.

Proverbs 7:23

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people does not consider.

Jeremiah 8:7

Yes, the stork in the heaven knows 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.