Proverbs 1:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 35:11 : 11 Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?
  • Prov 7:23 : 23 Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.
  • Isa 1:3 : 3 Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.
  • Jer 8:7 : 7 Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 1:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

    19Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

  • Prov 1:15-16
    2 verses
    80%

    15My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

    16For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

  • Hab 1:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.

    16For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.

    17For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.

  • Amos 3:5
    77%

    5Is it possible for a bird to be taken in a net on the earth where no net has been put for him? will the net come up from the earth if it has taken nothing at all?

  • Jer 5:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    26For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

    27As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

  • Job 18:10
    76%

    10The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

  • Ps 35:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

    8Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

  • Job 18:8
    75%

    8His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

  • Ps 9:15
    74%

    15The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

  • Prov 1:11
    74%

    11If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

  • Mic 7:2
    73%

    2The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.

  • Rom 3:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15Their feet are quick in running after blood;

    16Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

  • Isa 29:21
    73%

    21Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

  • Prov 7:23
    73%

    23Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

  • Eccl 9:12
    73%

    12Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.

  • Prov 6:5
    73%

    5Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

  • Ps 10:9
    73%

    9He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

  • Isa 59:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

    7Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

  • Ps 141:9
    72%

    9Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.

  • Jer 17:11
    72%

    11Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

  • Hab 2:9
    72%

    9A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!

  • Ps 37:32
    72%

    32The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

  • Ps 11:2
    72%

    2See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.

  • Job 28:7
    72%

    7No bird has knowledge of it, and the hawk's eye has never seen it.

  • Ps 140:5
    72%

    5The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)

  • Ps 57:6
    72%

    6They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

  • Prov 29:5
    72%

    5A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:

  • Ps 37:14
    71%

    14The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

  • Ps 39:6
    71%

    6Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

  • Isa 59:4
    71%

    4No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

  • Ps 17:11
    71%

    11They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • Prov 21:7
    71%

    7By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

  • Prov 26:2
    71%

    2As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.

  • Job 22:10
    71%

    10For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

  • Prov 12:12
    71%

    12The resting-place of the sinner will come to destruction, but the root of upright men is for ever.

  • Isa 19:8
    70%

    8The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts.

  • Hos 7:12
    70%

    12When they go, my net will be stretched out over them; I will take them like the birds of heaven, I will give them punishment, I will take them away in the net for their sin.

  • Ezek 32:3
    70%

    3This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net.

  • Jer 16:17
    70%

    17For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is not kept secret from my eyes.

  • Lam 4:19
    70%

    19Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

  • Prov 23:5
    70%

    5Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.