Proverbs 1:17 - Revised Standard Version

For in vain is a 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 beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

Proverbs 1:16

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

Proverbs 1:18

but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they set an ambush for their own lives.

Proverbs 7:23

till an arrow pierces its entrails; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.”

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the stork in the heavens knows her times; and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of the Lord.