17 How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
Proverbs 1:17
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Amos 3:4–6
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Job 28:20–22
20 From where then does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell? 21 It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air. 22 Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’
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Epistle of Barnabas 5:3–5
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2 Enoch 60:1–3
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Ecclesiastes 9:11–13
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Job 18:7–9
7 His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up. 8 For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh. 9 A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.
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