Proverbs 1:17

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 35:11 : 11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky.
  • Prov 7:23 : 23 Until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird rushing into a trap, not realizing it will cost him his life.
  • Isa 1:3 : 3 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey knows its master's feeding trough, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.
  • Jer 8:7 : 7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, as do the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane—they observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

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  • Prov 1:18-19
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    18But these men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

    19Such are the ways of everyone who gains unjust profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

  • Prov 1:15-16
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    80%

    15My son, do not walk in the way with them; keep your foot away from their paths,

    16For their feet run to evil; they hasten to shed blood.

  • Hab 1:15-17
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    78%

    15The wicked pull them all up with a hook, drag them out with their net, and gather them in their dragnet; so they rejoice and are glad.

    16Therefore they sacrifice to their net and burn incense to their dragnet, for by these their portion is rich and their food is plentiful.

    17Is this why they empty their net and continually slay nations without mercy?

  • Amos 3:5
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    5Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no bait for it? Does a trap spring up from the earth when it has caught nothing?

  • Jer 5:26-27
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    26Among My people are wicked men. They lie in wait like those who set traps; they set deadly snares to catch people.

    27Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Because of this, they have become great and rich.

  • Job 18:10
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    10His rope lies hidden in the ground, and his trap is set along the path.

  • Ps 35:7-8
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    76%

    7For without cause, they hid a pit for me; without reason, they dug a trap to capture my life.

    8May destruction come upon them unawares. May the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into their own trap.

  • Job 18:8
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    8For his feet are cast into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

  • Ps 9:15
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    15So that I may recount all your praises in the gates of Daughter Zion; I will rejoice in your salvation.

  • Prov 1:11
    74%

    11If they say, 'Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause;'

  • Mic 7:2
    73%

    2The godly have perished from the land, and there is no upright person among humanity. All of them lie in wait for blood; they hunt each other with nets.

  • Rom 3:15-16
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    73%

    15Their feet are swift to shed blood.

    16Ruin and misery mark their paths.

  • Isa 29:21
    73%

    21Those who cause humanity to sin with a word, who set traps for the one who rebukes in the gate, and who twist justice by making the righteous nothing, will be judged.

  • Prov 7:23
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    23Until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird rushing into a trap, not realizing it will cost him his life.

  • Eccl 9:12
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    12For no one knows their time. Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so are people ensnared by an evil time when it suddenly falls upon them.

  • Prov 6:5
    73%

    5Free yourself like a gazelle from the trap, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

  • Ps 10:9
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    9He lies in wait secretly, like a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the afflicted; he catches the afflicted by drawing them into his net.

  • Isa 59:6-7
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    73%

    6Their webs will not become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

    7Their feet run to do evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; ruin and destruction are in their paths.

  • Ps 141:9
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    9Keep me from the trap they have set for me and from the snares of those who do evil.

  • Jer 17:11
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    11Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay, so is one who gains wealth by unjust means. In the middle of his life, it will desert him, and in the end, he will prove to be a fool.

  • Hab 2:9
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    9Woe to the one who gains unjust wealth for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of calamity!

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The wicked person lies in wait for the righteous and seeks to kill him.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2See how the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.

  • Job 28:7
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    7No bird of prey knows that path, nor has the hawk's eye seen it.

  • Ps 140:5
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    5Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plot to overthrow my steps.

  • Ps 57:6
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    6Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let Your glory be over all the earth.

  • Prov 29:5
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    5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15Do not lie in ambush, wicked person, at the house of the righteous; do not destroy their resting place.

  • Ps 37:14
    71%

    14The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and the needy, to slaughter those whose ways are upright.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6Behold, You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before You. Surely, every man is but a breath. Selah.

  • Isa 59:4
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    4No one calls for justice, and no one pleads with integrity. They rely on empty words and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

  • Ps 17:11
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    11They track my every step; they surround me and set their eyes to bring me down to the ground.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to act justly.

  • Prov 26:2
    71%

    2Like a bird fluttering or a swallow flying, so a curse without cause will not come to rest.

  • Job 22:10
    71%

    10That is why snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you.

  • Prov 12:12
    71%

    12The wicked desire the plunder of evildoers, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

  • Isa 19:8
    70%

    8The fishermen will mourn, all who cast hooks into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the water will grow weak.

  • Hos 7:12
    70%

    12As they go, I will spread my net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the sky. I will discipline them as their assembly has heard.

  • Ezek 32:3
    70%

    3This is what the Lord GOD says: 'I will spread my net over you with a vast assembly of many peoples, and they will draw you up in my dragnet.

  • Jer 16:17
    70%

    17My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, and their iniquity is not concealed from My eyes.

  • Lam 4:19
    70%

    19Our pursuers were swifter than eagles in the sky; they chased us over the mountains and lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Prov 23:5
    70%

    5Will you fix your eyes on wealth only for it to vanish? For it makes itself wings and flies away like an eagle toward the heavens.