Proverbs 1:17

Authorized King James Version

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

— Proverbs 1:17, Authorized King James Version

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Proverbs 1 — 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: