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Proverbs 1:17

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17For it is 1no use that a net is spread

In the sight of any 2bird;

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit in vain
  2. 2Lit possessor of wing

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For in vain is a net spread

in the sight of any bird,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

How useless to spread a net

where every bird can see it!

CSBChristian Standard Bible

It is useless to spread a net

where any bird can see it,

NLTNew Living Translation

If a bird sees a trap being set,

it knows to stay away.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

for “in vain is the net scattered,

in the sight of any winged bird.”

KJV 1900King James Version

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