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

¹¹ Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, And makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

²³ Until an arrow strikes through his liver, As a bird hurries to the snare, And doesn't know that it will cost his life.

³ The ox knows his owner, And the donkey his master's crib; But Israel doesn't know, My people don't consider.

⁷ Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know Yahweh's law.