Proverbs 1:17
It is useless to put out a ◄trap/net to catch a bird► because when a bird sees it, it stays away from it.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
In Context
16They rush to do evil deeds! They hurry to murder [MTY] people.
Cross References
Job 35:11He should be able to teach us more than all the wild animals do; he should enable us to become wiser than all the birds are!’
Isaiah 1:3Oxen know their owners, and donkeys know who provides food for them, but my Israeli people do not know me; they do not realize that I am the one who takes care of them.”
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 →