Proverbs 1:17

Bible in Basic English 1965

Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

Cross References

Job 35:11

Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

Proverbs 1:18

And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

Proverbs 7:23

Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

Isaiah 1:3

Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.

Jeremiah 8:7

Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.