Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

Bible References

In vain

Proverbs 7:23

Until an arrow pierced his liver [with a mortal wound];
Like a bird fluttering straight into the net,
He did not know that it would cost him his life.
Job 35:11

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth
And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’
Isaiah 1:3

“The ox [instinctively] knows its owner,
And the donkey its master’s feeding trough,
But Israel does not know [Me as Lord],
My people do not understand.”
Jeremiah 8:7

“Even the stork in the sky
Knows her seasons [of migration],
And the turtledove, the swallow and the crane
Observe the time of their return.
But My people do not know
The law of the Lord.