^17 (A)For in vain is a net spread
    in the sight of any bird,

²³     till an arrow pierces its liver;
as ^(A)a bird rushes into a snare;
    he does not know that it will cost him his life.

⁷ Even the stork in the heavens
    knows her times,
and ^(A)the turtledove, ^(B)swallow, and crane^[a]
    keep the time of their coming,
^(C)but my people know not
    the rules^[b] of the Lord.

¹¹ who teaches us ^(A)more than the beasts of the earth
    and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

³ The ox ^(A)knows its owner,
    and the donkey its master's crib,
but Israel does ^(B)not know,
    my people do not understand.”