Strictly speaking, this is the first proverb (that is, comparison) in the book; a proverb which has received a variety of interpretations.

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Surely in vain ...—The second reason: their folly in so doing, for God will bring punishment upon them; in the same n…

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird .
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Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the more to answer…