The Enticement of Sin

Proverbs 1:17

In 11 translations

BSB: How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
KJV: Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.in the…: Heb. in the eyes of every thing that hath a wing
WEB: For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;
ASV: For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:
LSV: Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
YLT: Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
DBY: For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.
DRC: But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
GNV: Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:
JPS: For in vain the net is spread in the eyes of any bird;
LXXE: for nets are not without cause spread for birds.

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

WLC: כִּֽי־חִ֭נָּם מְזֹרָ֣ה הָרָ֑שֶׁת בְּ֝עֵינֵ֗י כָל־בַּ֥עַל כָּנָֽף׃We agree with both BHS 1997 and BHQ on an unexpected reading.
LXX-Br: Οὐ γὰρ ἀδίκως ἐκτείνεται δίκτυα πτερωτοῖς.

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Job 35:11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
Jeremiah 8:7Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
Proverbs 7:23until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.
Isaiah 1:3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).