Proverbs 1:17

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 35:11 : 11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
  • Prov 7:23 : 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
  • Isa 1:3 : 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
  • Jer 8:7 : 7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

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  • Prov 1:18-19
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    18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

    19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

  • Prov 1:15-16
    2 verses
    80%

    15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

    16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

  • Hab 1:15-17
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    78%

    15They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

    16Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.

    17Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

  • Amos 3:5
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    5Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

  • Jer 5:26-27
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    76%

    26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

    27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

  • Job 18:10
    76%

    10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

  • Ps 35:7-8
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    76%

    7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

    8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

  • Job 18:8
    75%

    8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

  • Ps 9:15
    74%

    15The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

  • Prov 1:11
    74%

    11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

  • Mic 7:2
    73%

    2The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

  • Rom 3:15-16
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    73%

    15Their feet are swift to shed blood:

    16Destruction and misery are in their ways:

  • Isa 29:21
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    21That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

  • Prov 7:23
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    23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

  • Eccl 9:12
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    12For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

  • Prov 6:5
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    5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

  • Ps 10:9
    73%

    9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

  • Isa 59:6-7
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    73%

    6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

    7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

  • Ps 141:9
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    9Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

  • Jer 17:11
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    11As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

  • Hab 2:9
    72%

    9Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

  • Ps 37:32
    72%

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

  • Ps 11:2
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    2For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

  • Job 28:7
    72%

    7There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

  • Ps 140:5
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    5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

  • Ps 57:6
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    6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

  • Prov 29:5
    72%

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

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

  • Ps 37:14
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    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

  • Ps 39:6
    71%

    6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

  • Isa 59:4
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    4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

  • Ps 17:11
    71%

    11They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

  • Prov 21:7
    71%

    7The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

  • Prov 26:2
    71%

    2As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

  • Job 22:10
    71%

    10Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

  • Prov 12:12
    71%

    12The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

  • Isa 19:8
    70%

    8The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

  • Hos 7:12
    70%

    12When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

  • Ezek 32:3
    70%

    3Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.

  • Jer 16:17
    70%

    17For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

  • Lam 4:19
    70%

    19Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Prov 23:5
    70%

    5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.