Proverbs 1:17 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

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 teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

Proverbs 1:16

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:18

but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

Proverbs 7:23

Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Yisra'el doesn't know, my people don't consider.

Jeremiah 8:7

Yes, the khasidah in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know the LORD's law.