¹⁷ For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:

¹¹ Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And maketh us wiser than the birds of the heavens?

²³ Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.

³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; `but' Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

⁷ Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of Jehovah.