Proverbs 1:17
for nets are not without cause spread for birds.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
In Context
Cross References
Job 35:11who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?
Isaiah 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know me, and the people has not regarded 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 →