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Proverbs 1:17
How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
Proverbs 1:17 · Berean Standard Bible
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Proverbs 1:17 in other translations
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;
For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:
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In context
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;
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