Proverbs 1:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

It is useless to spread a net where any bird can see it,

Tuilleadh leaganacha

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Surely in vain the net is spread In the sight of any bird.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird!

American Standard Version (1901)

For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:

Common English Bible

It’s useless to cast a net in the sight of a bird.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But a net is thrown in vain before the eyes of those who have wings.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.

Proverbs 1:17 Tagairtí Cros

Job 35:11

who gives us more understanding than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky? ’

Proverbs 1:16

because their feet run towards evil and they hurry to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:18

but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives.

Proverbs 7:23

until an arrow pierces its   liver, like a bird darting into a snare   – he doesn’t know it will cost him his life.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s feeding trough, but Israel does not know; my people do not understand.’

Jeremiah 8:7

Even storks in the sky know their seasons. Turtledoves, swallows, and cranes are aware of their migration, but my people do not know the requirements of the  Lord.