For in vain is the net baited while the bird is looking on;
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
for their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood.
yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves! and set an ambush—for their own lives!
until an arrow pierces its entrails. He is like a bird rushing into a snare, not knowing that it will cost him his life.
The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know; my people do not understand.
Even the stork in the heavens knows its times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane observe the time of their coming, but my people do not know the ordinance of the Lord.