Proverbs 1:17
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.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Prov 1:18-192 verses80%
18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
- Prov 1:15-162 verses80%
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
- Hab 1:15-173 verses78%
15 They 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.
16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their meat plenteous.
17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
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5 Can 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 5:26-272 verses76%
26 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
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10 The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
- Ps 35:7-82 verses76%
7 For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
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8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
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15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
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11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
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2 The 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 3:15-162 verses73%
15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:
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21 That 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.
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23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.
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12 For 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.
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5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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9 He 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 59:6-72 verses73%
6 Their 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.
7 Their 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.
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9 Keep me from the snares [which] they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
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11 [As] 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.
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9 Woe 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!
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32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
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2 For, lo, the wicked bend [their] bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
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7 [There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
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5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
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6 They 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.
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5 ¶ A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
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15 ¶ Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
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14 The 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.
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6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
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4 None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
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7 ¶ The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
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2 ¶ As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
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10 Therefore snares [are] round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
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12 ¶ The wicked desireth the net of evil [men]: but the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit].
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8 The 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.
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12 When 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.
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3 Thus 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.
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17 For mine eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
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19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.