Proverbs 1:17 · KJV
“Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. {in the...: Heb. in the eyes of every thing that hath a wing}”
— Proverbs 1:17
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
And they lay wait for their {own} blood; they lurk privily for their {own} lives.
Proverbs 1 — Context
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. {in the...: Heb. in the eyes of every thing that hath a wing}
18And they lay wait for their {own} blood; they lurk privily for their {own} lives.
19So {are} the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; {which} taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Cross References
Proverbs 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.
Jeremiah 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.
Job 35:11
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
Isaiah 1:3
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: {but} Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.