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Proverbs 1:17
Proverbs 1:17 is verse 17 of Proverbs chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
King James Version
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
World English Bible
For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;
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Proverbs 1:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.
16 For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
17 How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
18 But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
19 Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 7:23until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.
Job 35:11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
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.