¹⁷ Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

¹¹ Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

²³ Till a dart 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 heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.