Proverbs 1:17

New International Reader's Version

How useless it is to spread a net where every bird can see it!

Cross References

Job 35:11

He teaches us more than he teaches the wild animals. He makes us wiser than the birds in the sky.’

Proverbs 1:16

They are always in a hurry to sin. They are quick to spill someone’s blood.

Proverbs 1:18

Those who hide and wait will spill their own blood. They will be caught in their own trap.

Proverbs 7:23

until an arrow struck its liver. He was like a bird rushing into a trap. Little did he know it would cost him his life!

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its master. The donkey knows where its owner feeds it. But Israel does not know me. My people do not understand me.”

Jeremiah 8:7

Storks know when to fly south. So do doves, swifts and thrushes. But my people do not know what I require them to do.