Proverbs 1:17

The Passion Translation

To be aware of their snare is the best way of escape.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:16

For crime is their way of life and bloodshed their specialty.

Proverbs 1:18

They’ll resort to murder to steal their victim’s assets, but eventually it will be their own lives that are ambushed.

Proverbs 7:23

He’s like a man about to be executed with an arrow right through his heart— like a bird that flies into the net, unaware of what’s about to happen.

Isaiah 1:3

Even a dumb ox instinctively knows its owner and the stubborn mule knows the hand that feeds it, but Israel does not know me nor do my people understand.”

Jeremiah 8:7

“Even the stork in the skies knows her season of migration. And migratory birds—the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane — instinctively take flight according to the times I have set for them, but my people pay no attention to the orders of Yahweh.