Proverbs 1:17

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But as in vayne, the nette is layde foorth before the birdes eyes:

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 35:11 : 11 Which teacheth vs more the the beastes of the earth, and geueth vs more wysdome then the foules of heauen.
  • Prov 7:23 : 23 So long tyll she had wounded his lyuer with her dart: lyke as if a byrde hasted to the snare, not knowing that the perill of his life lieth thervpon.
  • Isa 1:3 : 3 The oxe hath knowen his owner, and the asse his maisters cribbe: but Israel hath not knowen, my people hath geuen no heede.
  • Jer 8:7 : 7 The Storke in the ayre knoweth his appointed tyme, the Turtle doue, the Swallowe and the Crane consider the tyme of their trauayle: but my people wyll not knowe the tyme of the punishment of the Lorde.

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  • Prov 1:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18So these lay wayte for the blood of them, and lye priuily for their liues.

    19Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedie of gayne, who taketh away the life of the owner therof.

  • Prov 1:15-16
    2 verses
    80%

    15My sonne, walke not thou with them, refrayne thy foote from their wayes.

    16For their feete runne to euyll, and are hasty to shed blood.

  • Hab 1:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15They take vp all with the angle, they catche it in their net, and gather it in their yarne: wherof they reioyce and are glad.

    16Therfore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their yarne: because by them their portion is fat, and their meate plenteous.

    17Shall they therfore stretche out their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

  • Amos 3:5
    77%

    5Can a birde fal in a snare vpon the earth where no fouler is? or wil he take vp the snare from the earth, and haue taken nothing at all?

  • Jer 5:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    26For among my people are found wicked persons, that priuily lay snares and wayte for men, to take them and destroy them.

    27And like as a nette is full of byrdes, so are their houses full of that which they haue gotten with falshood and deceipt: Hereof commeth their great substaunce and riches,

  • Job 18:10
    76%

    10The snare is layde for him in the grounde, and a pitfall in the way.

  • Ps 35:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7For without a cause they haue priuily layde for me a pit full of their nettes: without a cause they haue made a digyng vnto my soule.

    8Let a sodayne destruction come vpon hym vnawares: and his net that he hath layde priuily catch hym selfe, let him fall into it with his owne destruction.

  • Job 18:8
    75%

    8For his feete are taken as it were in the net, & he walketh vpon the snares.

  • Ps 9:15
    74%

    15The Heathen are sunke downe into the pit that they made: their owne foote is snared in the same net whiche they had layde priuily for other.

  • Prov 1:11
    74%

    11If they say, come with vs, let vs lay wayte for blood, and lurke priuily for the innocent without a cause:

  • Mic 7:2
    73%

    2There is not a godly vpon earth, there is not one righteous among men: they al lye in wayte for blood, and euery man hunteth his brother to death.

  • Rom 3:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15Their feete are swyft to shed blood.

    16Heartes griefe & miserie are in their wayes.

  • Isa 29:21
    73%

    21Making a man to sinne in the worde, and that toke him in a snare, whiche reproued them in the open place, and they that haue turned the cause of the righteous to naught.

  • Prov 7:23
    73%

    23So long tyll she had wounded his lyuer with her dart: lyke as if a byrde hasted to the snare, not knowing that the perill of his life lieth thervpon.

  • Eccl 9:12
    73%

    12For a man knoweth not his tyme: but like as the fishes are taken with the angle, and as the byrdes are caught with the snare: euen so are men taken in the perillous time, when it commeth sodaynly vpon them.

  • Prov 6:5
    73%

    5Saue thy self as a Doe from the hand of the hunter and as a byrde from the hande of the fouler.

  • Ps 10:9
    73%

    9He lieth in wayte lurking as a Lion in his denne: he lyeth in wayte lurkyng, that he may violently carry away the afflicted, he doth carry away violentlye the afflicted, in halyng hym into his net.

  • Isa 59:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6Their webbe maketh no cloth, and they may not couer them with their labours: their deedes are the deedes of wickednesse, and the worke of robberie is in their handes.

    7Their feete runne to euyll, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their counsels are wicked counsels, harme and destruction are in their wayes.

  • Ps 141:9
    72%

    9Kepe me from the snare which they haue layde foorth for me: and from the trappes of them that be workers of iniquitie.

  • Jer 17:11
    72%

    11The partrich maketh a nest of egges, which she layed not: he commeth by riches, but not righteously, in the middest of his life must he leane them behynde hym, & at the last be founde a very foole.

  • Hab 2:9
    72%

    9Wo he that coueteth an euyll couetousnesse to his house, that he may set his nest on hie, to escape from the power of euyll.

  • Ps 37:32
    72%

    32The vngodly spyeth the righteous: and seeketh occasion to slay hym.

  • Ps 11:2
    72%

    2For lo, the vngodly haue bende their bowe: and nocked their arrowes with the string, redy to shoote priuily at them whiche are vpright in heart.

  • Job 28:7
    72%

    7There is a way that the birdes knowe not, that no vultures eye hath seene:

  • Ps 140:5
    72%

    5The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spread a net abroade with coardes in the high wayes: they haue set trappes for me. Selah.

  • Ps 57:6
    72%

    6They haue prepared a net for my feete, that some man might presse downe my soule: they haue digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the midst of it them selues. Selah.

  • Prov 29:5
    72%

    5Who so flattereth his neighbour, layeth a net for his feete.

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15Laye no priuie wayte (O wicked man) against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.

  • Ps 37:14
    71%

    14The vngodly haue drawen out the sworde, and haue bended their bowe: to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of right conuersation.

  • Ps 39:6
    71%

    6Truely man walketh in a vayne shadowe, truely he and all his do disquiet them selues in vayne: he heapeth vp riches, & can not tel who shal vse them.

  • Isa 59:4
    71%

    4No man regardeth righteousnesse, and no man iudgeth truely: euery man hopeth in vayne things, and imagineth deceipt, conceaueth weerinesse, and bringeth foorth euill.

  • Ps 17:11
    71%

    11His doynges be lyke a lions that is greedy to take a pray: and as a lions whelpe lurkyng in secrete places.

  • Prov 21:7
    71%

    7The robberies of the vngodly shalbe their owne destruction: for they wyll not do the thing that is right.

  • Prov 26:2
    71%

    2As the byrde and the swalowe take their flight and flee here and there: so the curse that is geuen in vayne, shall not light vpon a man.

  • Job 22:10
    71%

    10Therefore art thou compassed about with snares, & sodenly vexed with feare.

  • Prov 12:12
    71%

    12The desire of the vngodly is a net of euyls: but the roote of the ryghteous bryngeth foorth fruite.

  • Isa 19:8
    70%

    8The fisshers also shall mourne, and all they that cast angle into the water shall make lamentation: and they that lay foorth their net beside the waters shalbe rooted out.

  • Hos 7:12
    70%

    12But whyle they be goyng here and there I shal spreade my net ouer them, and drawe them downe as the foules of the ayre: and according as they haue ben warned, so wyll I punishe them.

  • Ezek 32:3
    70%

    3Thus saith the Lorde God, I wyll spreade my nette ouer thee with a great multitude of people, these shal make thee come vp into my net.

  • Jer 16:17
    70%

    17For mine eyes behold all their wayes, and they can not be hyd fro my face: neither can their wicked deedes be kept close out of my sight.

  • Lam 4:19
    70%

    19Our persecutours are swifter then the Egles of the ayre: they folowed vppon vs ouer the mountaynes, and layde wayte for vs in the wyldernesse.

  • Prov 23:5
    70%

    5Wylt thou set thyne eye vpon the thing which sodenly vanisheth away? For riches make them selues wynges, and take their flight lyke an Egle into the ayre.