Proverbs 1:17 - New Revised Standard Version

¹⁷ For in vain is the net baited while the bird is looking on;

Tuilleadh leaganacha

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ 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 air?’

Proverbs 1:16

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

Proverbs 1:18

yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves! and set an ambush—for their own lives!

Proverbs 7:23

until an arrow pierces its entrails. He is like a bird rushing into a snare, not knowing that it will cost him his life.

Isaiah 1:3

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

Jeremiah 8:7

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