Proverbs 1:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Job 35:11 : 11 Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'
  • Prov 7:23 : 23 Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it `is' for its life.
  • Isa 1:3 : 3 An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.
  • Jer 8:7 : 7 Even a stork in the heavens hath known her seasons, And turtle, and swallow, and crane, Have watched the time of their coming, And -- My people have not known the judgment of Jehovah.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 1:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

    19So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

  • Prov 1:15-16
    2 verses
    80%

    15My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

    16For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

  • Hab 1:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15Each of them with a hook he hath brought up, He doth catch it in his net, and gathereth it in his drag, Therefore he doth joy and rejoice.

    16Therefore he doth sacrifice to his net, And doth make perfume to his drag, For by them `is' his portion fertile, and his food fat.

    17Doth he therefore empty his net, And continually to slay nations spare not?

  • Amos 3:5
    77%

    5Doth a bird fall into a snare of the earth, And there is no gin for it? Doth a snare go up from the ground, And prey it captureth not?

  • Jer 5:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    26For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

    27As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.

  • Job 18:10
    76%

    10Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.

  • Ps 35:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul.

    8Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.

  • Job 18:8
    75%

    8For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.

  • Ps 9:15
    74%

    15Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.

  • Prov 1:11
    74%

    11If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

  • Mic 7:2
    73%

    2Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men -- there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt `with' a net.

  • Rom 3:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15Swift `are' their feet to shed blood.

    16Ruin and misery `are' in their ways.

  • Isa 29:21
    73%

    21Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

  • Prov 7:23
    73%

    23Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it `is' for its life.

  • Eccl 9:12
    73%

    12For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these `are' the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

  • Prov 6:5
    73%

    5Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.

  • Ps 10:9
    73%

    9He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.

  • Isa 59:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works `are' works of iniquity, And a deed of violence `is' in their hands.

    7Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts `are' thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction `are' in their highways.

  • Ps 141:9
    72%

    9Keep me from the gin they laid for me, Even snares of workers of iniquity.

  • Jer 17:11
    72%

    11A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, `Is' one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.

  • Hab 2:9
    72%

    9Wo `to' him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,

  • Ps 37:32
    72%

    32The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.

  • Ps 11:2
    72%

    2For lo, the wicked tread a bow, They have prepared their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

  • Job 28:7
    72%

    7A path -- not known it hath a ravenous fowl, Nor scorched it hath an eye of the kite,

  • Ps 140:5
    72%

    5The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.

  • Ps 57:6
    72%

    6A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.

  • Prov 29:5
    72%

    5A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.

  • Ps 37:14
    71%

    14A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.

  • Ps 39:6
    71%

    6Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

  • Isa 59:4
    71%

    4There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.

  • Ps 17:11
    71%

    11`Our steps now have compassed `him';' Their eyes they set to turn aside in the land.

  • Prov 21:7
    71%

    7The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.

  • Prov 26:2
    71%

    2As a bird by wandering, as a swallow by flying, So reviling without cause doth not come.

  • Job 22:10
    71%

    10Therefore round about thee `are' snares, And trouble thee doth fear suddenly.

  • Prov 12:12
    71%

    12The wicked hath desired the net of evil doers, And the root of the righteous giveth.

  • Isa 19:8
    70%

    8And lamented have the fishers, And mourned have all casting angle into a brook, And those spreading nets on the face of the waters have languished.

  • Hos 7:12
    70%

    12When they go I spread over them My net, As the fowl of the heavens I bring them down, I chastise them as their company hath heard.

  • Ezek 32:3
    70%

    3Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And -- I have spread out for thee My net, With an assembly of many peoples, And they have brought thee up in My net.

  • Jer 16:17
    70%

    17For Mine eyes `are' upon all their ways, They have not been hidden from My face, Nor hath their iniquity been concealed from before Mine eyes.

  • Lam 4:19
    70%

    19Swifter have been our pursuers, Than the eagles of the heavens, On the mountains they have burned `after' us, In the wilderness they have laid wait for us.

  • Prov 23:5
    70%

    5For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.