Holy Scripture
Proverbs 1:17
A church father on this verse
“If then nets are not wrongfully stretched for birds, as it is said in Proverbs, but God justly leads men into the snare, as it is said, "You led us into the snare," and if not even a sparrow, cheapest of birds, falls into the snare without the will of the Father (its fall into the snare being due to its failure to use…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
17For nets are not without cause spread for birds.
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In context
15Go not in the way with them, But turn aside thy foot from their paths:
— Proverbs 1:17 —
18For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; And the overthrow of transgressors is evil.
19These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; For by ungodliness they destroy their own life.