Surely it is useless to spread a net in the eyes of all winged creatures!
till an arrow pierces its liver. Like a bird darting into a snare, he never considered his own soul!
Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed times, and the turtledove, swallow and crane observe the time of their migration, but My people do not know the judgments of Adonai.
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, who makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its manger, but Israel does not know, My people do not understand.”
for their feet run to evil and they are swift to shed blood.
But they lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush their own lives.