Proverbs 1:17

Proverbs chapter 1 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:

King James Version · 1611

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

American Standard Version · 1901

For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:

v.16For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

v.17This passage

v.18And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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.
Job 35:11
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And maketh us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
Jeremiah 8:7
Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of Jehovah.
Proverbs 7:23
Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.