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Proverbs 1:17
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Proverbs 1:17 · King James Version
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Proverbs 1:17 in other translations
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;
For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:
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In context
14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
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