Proverbs 1:17

New Century Version

It is useless to spread out a net right where the birds can see it.

Cross References

Job 35:11

who makes us smarter than the animals of the earth and wiser than the birds of the air?’

Proverbs 1:16

They are eager to do evil and are quick to kill.

Proverbs 1:18

But sinners will fall into their own traps; they will only catch themselves!

Proverbs 7:23

and shot through the liver with an arrow. Like a bird caught in a trap, he didn’t know what he did would kill him.

Isaiah 1:3

An ox knows its master, and a donkey knows where its owner feeds it, but the people of Israel do not know me; my people do not understand.”

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the birds in the sky know the right times to do things. The storks, doves, swifts, and thrushes know when it is time to migrate. But my people don’t know what the Lord wants them to do.