Proverbs 1:17
“Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.”
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
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.
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Cross-References
“Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?”
“Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.”
“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.”
“The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.”
“Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.”