For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird;
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they set an ambush for their own lives.
till an arrow pierces its entrails; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.
The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.”
Even the stork in the heavens knows her times; and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of the Lord.