Proverbs 1:17 - Revised Version 1885

¹⁷ For in vain is the net spread, in the eyes 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.

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 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 they make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:18

And these lay wait for their own blood, They lurk privily for their own lives.

Proverbs 7:23

Till an arrow 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 swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of the LORD.