Proverbs 1:17
There's no point in trying to lure birds into a net when they can see it.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
In Context
16For they rush to do evil; they hurry to commit violence and murder.
Cross References
Job 35:11who teaches us more than the animals, and makes us wiser than the birds?’
Isaiah 1:3An ox knows its owner, and a donkey knows its feeding trough; but my people don't know me, they don't understand me.
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 →