Proverbs 1:17
For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
In Context
16For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
18and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
Cross References
Job 35:11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
Isaiah 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, [but] Israel does not know; my people does not consider.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:11-20
Parental Admonitions. 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to… Read the whole commentary →