Proverbs 1:17

in vain Because, whereas by the certain destruction which it portends, the net ought to deter the bird from yielding to the solicitations of appetite, the temptation of the bait prevails, and the warning of the visible net is unheeded. "So," in their unheeding regard of manifest warning, "are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain" (). His devices against others (Proverbs 1:11) are really devices against himself Proverbs 1:18. "In the net which they hid is their own foot taken" (Psalms 9:15).