Proverbs 1:17 - King James 2000

¹⁷ Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Surely in vain the net is spread In the sight of any bird.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:

Common English Bible

¹⁷ It’s useless to cast a net in the sight of a bird.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ But a net is thrown in vain before the eyes of those who 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 fowls of heaven?

Proverbs 1:16

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

Proverbs 1:18

And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

Proverbs 7:23

Till an arrow strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.

Jeremiah 8:7

Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of the LORD.