For in vain the net is spread In the sight of any bird.
Till an arrow strikes through his liver; Like a bird rushing into a snare, And did not know it would take his life.
“Even a stork in the heavens knows her appointed times. And a turtledove, and a swallow, and a thrush observe the time of their coming. But My people do not know the right-ruling of יהוה.
teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’
An ox knows its owner and a donkey its master’s crib – Yisra’ĕ
For their feet run to evil, And they hurry to shed blood.
But they lie in wait for their own blood, They ambush their own lives.
