Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
Till an arrow strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of the LORD.
