Bible verse
How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
Proverbs 1:17 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 1.
13 We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.
14 Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—
15 my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.
16 For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
17 How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
18 But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
19 Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.
20 Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
21 in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:
KJV
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
ASV
For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:
ERV
For in vain is the net spread, in the eyes of any bird:
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