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Proverbs 1:17
But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
Proverbs 1:17 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Proverbs 1:17 in other translations
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;
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In context
14 Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.
15 My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17 But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
18 And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.
19 So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.
20 Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:
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