Proverbs 1:17
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
- KJV
- Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
- WEB
- For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;
- ASV
- For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:
- DARBY
- For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.
- BLB
- For the net is spread in vain in the eyes of any owner of the wing,
- ÅB
- til ingen nytte blir garnet utspent så alle fuglene ser det;
- OTB
- Hvor fåfengt det er å spre et nett i full utsikt for alle fuglene!
- B1930
- til ingen nytte blir garnet utspent så alle fuglene ser det;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 35:11
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
Read in contextJeremiah 8:7
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Read in contextProverbs 7:23
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:3
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
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