¹⁷ How useless to spread a net
    where every bird can see it!

⁷ Even the stork in the sky
    knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
    observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know^(A)
    the requirements of the Lord.

²³     till an arrow pierces^(A) his liver,
like a bird darting into a snare,
    little knowing it will cost him his life.^(B)

¹¹ who teaches^(A) us^(B) more than he teaches^[a] the beasts of the earth
    and makes us wiser than^[b] the birds in the sky?’