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Proverbs 1:17

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

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  1. Proverbs 1:15

    My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

  2. Proverbs 1:16

    For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

  3. Proverbs 1:18

    And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

  4. Proverbs 1:19

    So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.