Proverbs 1:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!”
What this verse means
Read Proverbs 1:17 in the flow of Proverbs1 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Proverbs1 to see the surrounding context.
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BSBPD
“How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Proverbs 1:17 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 35:11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
- Proverbs 7:23until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.
- Isaiah 1:3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
- Jeremiah 8:7Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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