Amsal 1:17

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Sebab percumalah jaring dibentangkan di depan mata segala yang bersayap,

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Sebab percumalah jaring dibentangkan di depan mata segala yang bersayap,

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ My sonne, if sinners entice thee, consent not vnto them. ¹¹ If they say, come with vs, let vs lay wayte for blood, and lurke priuily for the innocent without a cause: ¹² Let vs swallowe them vp lyke the graue quicke and whole, as those that go downe into the pit: ¹³ So shall we finde all maner of costly riches, and fill our houses with spoyles: ¹⁴ Cast in thy lot among vs, and let vs all haue one purse. ¹⁵ My sonne, walke not thou with them, refrayne thy foote from their wayes. ¹⁶ For their feete runne to euyll, and are hasty to shed blood. ¹⁷ But [as] in vayne, the nette is layde foorth before the birdes eyes: ¹⁸ So these lay wayte for the blood of them, and lye priuily for their liues. ¹⁹ Such [are] the wayes of euery one that is greedie of gayne, who taketh away the life of the owner therof.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in vain: Proverbs 7:23, Job 35:11, Isaiah 1:3, Jeremiah 8:7

sight of any bird: Heb. eyes of everything that hath a wing

Reciprocal: Proverbs 6:5 - as a bird Proverbs 6:6 - the ant Proverbs 12:12 - desireth Proverbs 29:5 - spreadeth Jeremiah 5:26 - lay wait 1 Timothy 6:9 - snare 2 Peter 3:17 - seeing

Cross-References

Genesis 9:13
I do set my bowe in the cloude, and it shall be for a token betweene me and the earth.

Job 38:12
Hast thou geue the morning his charge since thy dayes, and shewed the day spring his place,

Psalms 8:1
O God our Lorde, howe excellent is thy name in all the earth? for that thou hast set thy glory aboue the heauens.

Psalms 8:3
For I will consider thy heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers: the moone and the starres whiche thou hast ordayned.

Acts 13:47
For so hath the Lorde commaunded vs. I haue made thee a lyght of the Gentiles, that thou be the saluation vnto the ende of the worlde.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. Or "without cause" y, as the word is rendered in Proverbs 1:11; and so the words are an illustration of the preceding; showing that the blood of innocent persons is shed without cause, no injury being done by them to those that do it, but is shed without any provocation at all; just as the net is spread for the innocent bird, which has done no harm to the fowler that seeks to take it; so Gersom: or else the sense is, that though the net is spread by the fowler even in the sight of the bird, yet it is in vain to the bird, though not to the fowler; it is so intent upon the corn that is spread about, that it takes no notice of the net, and so is caught in it; and thus it is with those men that are bent upon their sinful practices, upon theft and murder, though their ruin and destruction are before their eyes; and they daily see their companions in iniquity come to an untimely end; they know that they are liable to suffer death by the hand of the civil magistrate, and to be followed by the justice and vengeance of God, and suffer eternal punishment; yet take no warning hereby, but rush on to their own ruin, as follows.

y הנם "sine causa", Vatablus, Mercerus, Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Strictly speaking, this is the first proverb (i. e., similitude) in the book; a proverb which has received a variety of interpretations. The true meaning seems to be as follows: “For in vain, to no purpose, is the net spread out openly. Clear as the warning is, it is in vain. The birds still fly in. The great net of God’s judgments is spread out, open to the eyes of all, and yet the doers of evil, willfully blind, still rush into it.” Others take the words as pointing to the failure of the plans of the evil-doers against the innocent (the “bird”): others, again, interpret the proverb of the young man who thinks that he at least shall not fall into the snares laid for him, and so goes blindly into them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 1:17. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. — This is a proverb of which the wise man here makes a particular use; and the meaning does not seem as difficult as some imagine. The wicked are represented as lurking privily for the innocent. It is in this way alone that they can hope to destroy them and take their substance; for if their designs were known, proper precautions would be taken against them; for it would be vain to spread the net in the sight of those birds which men wish to ensnare. Attend therefore to my counsels, and they shall never be able to ensnare thee.