For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Yisra'el doesn't know, my people don't consider.
Yes, the khasidah in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know the LORD's law.