Proverbs 1:17 - King James Version - American Edition

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

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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 teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Proverbs 1:16

for their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:18

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

Proverbs 7:23

till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

Jeremiah 8:7

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.