Proverbs 1:17
Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
In Context
16For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.
18And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
Cross References
Job 35:11Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'
Isaiah 1:3An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.
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 →