Proverbs 1:17

New International Version

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

Cross References

Job 35:11

who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?’

Proverbs 1:16

for their feet rush into evil, they are swift to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:18

These men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush only themselves!

Proverbs 7:23

till an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare, little knowing it will cost him his life.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the Lord.