Proverbs 1:17 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁷ Surely it is useless to spread a net in the eyes of all winged creatures!

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.

Proverbs 1:17 Tagairtí Cros

Job 35:11

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, who makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Proverbs 1:16

for their feet run to evil and they are swift to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:18

But they lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 7:23

till an arrow pierces its liver. Like a bird darting into a snare, he never considered his own soul!

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its manger, but Israel does not know, My people do not understand.”

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed times, and the turtledove, swallow and crane observe the time of their migration, but My people do not know the judgments of Adonai.