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
till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.
Job 35:11
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?
Isaiah 1:3
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence.
Jeremiah 8:7
Even a stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of Jehovah.