Proverbs 1:17 How useless to spread a net where every bird can see it!

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
How useless to spread a net where every bird can see it!

New American Standard Bible
Indeed, it is useless to spread the baited net In the sight of any bird;

King James Bible
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
It is foolish to spread a net where any bird can see it,

International Standard Version
Look, it is useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds,

American Standard Version
For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:

Douay-Rheims Bible
But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.

Darby Bible Translation
For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.

Young's Literal Translation
Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

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Context

The Enticement of Sin

8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother: 9For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck. 10My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not. 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause: 12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path: 16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives. 19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the owners thereof.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:16
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:18
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives.

Treasury of Scripture

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

in vain

Proverbs 7:23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.

Job 35:11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Isaiah 1:3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people does not consider.

Jeremiah 8:7 Yes, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming...

sight of any bird means eyes of anything that hath a wing

Strong's Concordance

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

Topical Bible

Anything Baited Bird Birds Full Indeed Net Purpose Sight Spread Stretched Surely Truly Useless Vain View Wings

Resources

Proverbs Chapter 1 Verse 17

Alphabetical: a all any baited bird birds full How in Indeed is it net of sight spread the to useless view

OT Poetry: Proverbs 1:17 For in vain is the net spread (Prov. Pro Pr)

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