Parallel Verses
Jubilee 2000 Bible
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
New American Standard Bible
Indeed, it is useless to spread the baited net In the sight of any bird;
King James Version
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Holman Bible
where any bird can see it,
International Standard Version
Look, it is useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds,
A Conservative Version
For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird,
American Standard Version
For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:
Amplified
For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird!
Bible in Basic English
Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:
Darby Translation
For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.
Julia Smith Translation
For gratuitously the net was spread in the eyes of all possessing a wing.
King James 2000
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Lexham Expanded Bible
for "in vain is the net scattered, in the sight of any {winged bird}."
Modern King James verseion
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But in vain is the net laid forth before the bird's eyes.
NET Bible
Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,
New Heart English Bible
For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:
The Emphasized Bible
Surely, in vain, is spread the net, in the sight of aught that hath wings!
Webster
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
World English Bible
For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:
Youngs Literal Translation
Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
Themes
Birds » Illustrative » (snaring,) of designs of the wicked
Birds » Taken in snares or nets
The call of God » Rejection of, leads to » Rejection by God
Interlinear
Chinnam
Word Count of 21 Translations in Proverbs 1:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Advice To The Young
16 For their feet shall 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 in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own souls.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 35:11
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
Proverbs 7:23
until the arrow pierces through his liver. He is as a bird struggling in the snare and not knowing that it is against his own life.
Isaiah 1:3
The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not have understanding.
Jeremiah 8:7
Even the stork in the heaven knows her appointed time; and the turtle dove and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people did not know the judgment of the LORD.