Proverbs 1:17

New English Translation

Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,

Cross References

Job 35:11

who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Proverbs 1:16

for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:18

but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!

Proverbs 7:23

till an arrow pierces his liver – like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.

Isaiah 1:3

An ox recognizes its owner, a donkey recognizes where its owner puts its food; but Israel does not recognize me, my people do not understand.”

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the stork knows when it is time to move on. The turtledove, swallow, and crane recognize the normal times for their migration. But my people pay no attention to what I, the Lord, require of them.