Proverbs 1:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 35:11 : 11 Which teacheth vs more then the beastes of the earth, and giueth vs more wisdome then the foules of the heauen.
  • Prov 7:23 : 23 Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.
  • Isa 1:3 : 3 The oxe knoweth his owner, and the asse his masters crib: but Israel hath not knowen: my people hath not vnderstand.
  • Jer 8:7 : 7 Euen the storke in the aire knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle and the crane and the swallowe obserue the time of their comming, but my people knoweth not the iudgement of the Lorde.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 1:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.

    19Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.

  • Prov 1:15-16
    2 verses
    80%

    15My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.

    16For their feete runne to euill, & make haste to shed blood.

  • Hab 1:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

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

    16Therefore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their yarne, because by them their portion is fat & their meat plenteous.

    17Shall they therefore stretch out their net and not spare continually to slay the nations?

  • Amos 3:5
    77%

    5Can a birde fall in a snare vpon the earth, where no fouler is? or will 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 founde wicked persons, that lay waite as hee that setteth snares: they haue made a pit, to catch men.

    27As a cage is full of birdes, so are their houses full of deceite: thereby they are become great and waxen riche.

  • Job 18:10
    76%

    10A snare is layed for him in the ground, and a trappe for him in the way.

  • Ps 35:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7For without cause they haue hid the pit & their net for me: without cause haue they digged a pit for my soule.

    8Let destruction come vpon him at vnwares, and let his net, that he hath laid priuilie, take him: let him fall into the same destruction.

  • Job 18:8
    75%

    8For hee is taken in the net by his feete, and he walketh vpon the snares.

  • Ps 9:15
    74%

    15The heathen are sunken downe in the pit that they made: in the nette that they hid, is their foote taken.

  • Prov 1:11
    74%

    11If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:

  • Mic 7:2
    73%

    2The good man is perished out of the earth, and there is none righteous among men: they all lye in wayte for blood: euery man hunteth his brother with a net.

  • Rom 3:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15Their feete are swift to shead blood.

    16Destruction & calamity are in their waies,

  • Isa 29:21
    73%

    21Which made a man to sinne in ye worde, and tooke him in a snare: which reproued them in the gate, and made the iust to fall without cause.

  • Prov 7:23
    73%

    23Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.

  • Eccl 9:12
    73%

    12For neither doth man knowe his time, but as the fishes which are taken in an euill net, and as the birdes that are caught in the snare: so are the children of men snared in the euill time when it falleth vpon them suddenly.

  • Prov 6:5
    73%

    5Deliuer thy selfe as a doe from the hande of the hunter, and as a birde from the hande of the fouler.

  • Ps 10:9
    73%

    9He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.

  • Isa 59:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6Their webbes shall be no garment, neither shall they couer themselues with their labours: for their workes are workes of iniquitie, & the worke of crueltie is in their handes.

    7Their feete runne to euill, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are wicked thoughts: desolation and destruction is in their paths.

  • Ps 141:9
    72%

    9Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.

  • Jer 17:11
    72%

    11As the partryche gathereth the yong, which she hath not brought forth: so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leaue them in the middes of his dayes, and at his ende shall bee a foole.

  • Hab 2:9
    72%

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

  • Ps 37:32
    72%

    32The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2For loe, the wicked bende their bowe, and make readie their arrowes vpon the string, that they may secretly shoote at them, which are vpright in heart.

  • Job 28:7
    72%

    7There is a path which no foule hath knowen, neyther hath the kites eye seene it.

  • Ps 140:5
    72%

    5The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spred a nette with cordes in my pathway, and set grennes for me. Selah.

  • Ps 57:6
    72%

    6They haue layd a net for my steps: my soule is pressed downe: they haue digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the mids of it. Selah.

  • Prov 29:5
    72%

    5A man that flattereth his neighbour, spreadeth a net for his steps.

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15Laye no waite, O wicked man, against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.

  • Ps 37:14
    71%

    14The wicked haue drawen their sworde, and haue bent their bowe, to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.

  • Ps 39:6
    71%

    6Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

  • Isa 59:4
    71%

    4No man calleth for iustice: no man contendeth for trueth: they trust in vanitie, & speake vaine things: they conceiue mischiefe, and bring foorth iniquitie.

  • Ps 17:11
    71%

    11They haue compassed vs now in our steps: they haue set their eyes to bring downe to the ground:

  • Prov 21:7
    71%

    7The robberie of the wicked shall destroy them: for they haue refused to execute iudgement.

  • Prov 26:2
    71%

    2As the sparowe by flying, and the swallow by flying escape, so the curse that is causeles, shall not come.

  • Job 22:10
    71%

    10Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shal suddenly trouble thee:

  • Prov 12:12
    71%

    12The wicked desireth the net of euils: but the roote of the righteous giueth fruite.

  • Isa 19:8
    70%

    8The fishers also shall mourne, and all they that cast angle into the riuer, shall lament, and they that spread their nette vpon the waters, shall be weakened.

  • Hos 7:12
    70%

    12But when they shal go, I will spred my net vpon them, and drawe them downe as the foules of the heauen: I will chastice them as their congregation hath heard.

  • Ezek 32:3
    70%

    3Thus sayth the Lord God, I will therefore spread my net ouer thee with a great multitude of people, and they shall make thee come vp into my net.

  • Jer 16:17
    70%

    17For mine eyes are vpon al their wayes: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquitie hid from mine eyes.

  • Lam 4:19
    70%

    19Our persecuters are swifter then the egles of the heauen: they pursued vs vpon the mountaines, and layed waite for vs in the wildernes.

  • Prov 23:5
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    5Wilt thou cast thine eyes vpon it, which is nothing? For riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heauen.