Proverbs 1:17

Modern English Version

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 birds of heaven?’

Proverbs 1:16

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

Proverbs 1:18

but they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

Proverbs 7:23

until an arrow pierces his liver; as a bird darting into the snare, he did not know that it would cost him his life.

Isaiah 1:3

the ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib, but Israel does not know; My people do not consider.

Jeremiah 8:7

Indeed, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. And the turtledove and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming. But My people do not know the judgment of the Lord.