Proverbs 1:17 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 1:17

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

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

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ASV

For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:

WEB

How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

YLT

Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

DBT

For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.

About this book

Old Testament

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Cross-references

11 verses on the floor

1 Timothy 6:9
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Proverbs 29:5
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
2 Peter 3:17
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
Jeremiah 8:7
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Proverbs 7:23
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices4

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

A faithful and lively representation of wisdom's reasonings with the children of men, and the certain ruin of those who turn a deaf ear to those reasonings,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

But the sinner sees ruin at the end of his way; the murderer, the thief, see the jail and the gallows before them, nay, they may see hell before them; their watchmen tell them they shall surely die, but it is to no purpose; they rush into sin, and rush on in it, like the horse into the battle.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Men warned ought to escape danger as birds instinctively avoid visibly spread nets. But stupid sinners rush to their own ruin (Ps 9:16), and, greedy of gain, succeed in the very schemes which destroy them (1Ti 6:10), not only failing to catch others, but procuring their own destruction.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

A solemn warning against temptation. entice--literally, "open the way." consent . . . not--Sin is in consenting or yielding to temptation, not in being tempted.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Words3

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H260032× in canon H221939× in canon H116784× in canon

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PRO 1:17ISA 1:3 ISA 5:12
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PRO 1:17ISA 1:3 JER 8:7
PRO 1:17ISA 1:3 JER 4:22
PRO 1:17ISA 1:3 ISA 44:18
PRO 1:17ISA 1:3 MAT 13:13-15
PRO 1:17JER 8:7 ISA 1:3
PRO 1:17JOB 35:11 PSA 94:12
PRO 1:17PRO 7:23 ECC 9:12

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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