Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird] Heb. Surely without cause the net is spread in the sight of any bird: yet men lay wait for their blood, and lurk privily for their lives. So are the wayes, &c. That is, as men seek to kill birds to eat them, though the birds provoke them not: so do wicked men seek to kill such as never offended them, that they may have their wealth. This is an inhumane course: Therefore my son have nothing to do with these wicked men. in vain] Or, without cause, Vers. 11. chap 3. 30. in the sight of any bird] Heb. in the eyes of every thing that hath a wing.