Proverbs 1:17
For in vain is the net spread, in the eyes of any bird:
Revised Version 1895
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 privily for their own lives.
Cross References
Job 35:11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
Isaiah 1:3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth 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 →