Proverbs 1:17

World English Bible (2000)

For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 35:11 : 11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
  • Prov 7:23 : 23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.
  • Isa 1:3 : 3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider."
  • Jer 8:7 : 7 Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know Yahweh's law.

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    18 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

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  • Prov 1:15-16
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    15 My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

    16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

  • Hab 1:15-17
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    15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

    16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.

    17 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?

  • Amos 3:5
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    5 Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?

  • Jer 5:26-27
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    26 For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

    27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

  • Job 18:10
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    10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

  • Ps 35:7-8
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    7 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

    8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

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

  • Ps 9:15
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    15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

  • Prov 1:11
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    11 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

  • Mic 7:2
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    2 The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

  • Rom 3:15-16
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    15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood.

    16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.

  • Isa 29:21
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    21 who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

  • Prov 7:23
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    23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.

  • Eccl 9:12
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    12 For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

  • Prov 6:5
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    5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

  • Ps 10:9
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    9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

  • Isa 59:6-7
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    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.

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  • Ps 141:9
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    9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

  • Jer 17:11
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  • Hab 2:9
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    9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

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    32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

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    2 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

  • Job 28:7
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    7 That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it.

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    5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

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    6 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

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

  • Prov 24:15
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    15 Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:

  • Ps 37:14
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    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

  • Ps 39:6
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    7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

  • Prov 26:2
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    2 Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn't come to rest.

  • Job 22:10
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    10 Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

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    12 The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

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    8 The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.

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  • Jer 16:17
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    19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Prov 23:5
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    5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.