Proverbs 1:17

Young's Literal Translation 1862

Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

Cross References

Job 35:11

Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:18

And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

Proverbs 7:23

Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it `is' for its life.

Isaiah 1:3

An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.

Jeremiah 8:7

Even a stork in the heavens hath known her seasons, And turtle, and swallow, and crane, Have watched the time of their coming, And -- My people have not known the judgment of Jehovah.