Ecclesiastes 9:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹² For certainly no one knows his time:  like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap,  so people are trapped in an evil time  as it suddenly falls on them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For man also knows not his time [of death]: as the fishes are taken in an evil net, and as the birds are caught in the snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when [calamity] falls suddenly upon them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Common English Bible

¹² People most definitely don’t know when their time will come. Like fish tragically caught in a net or like birds trapped in a snare, so are human beings caught in a time of tragedy that suddenly falls to them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Man does not know his own end. But, just as fish are caught with a hook, and birds are captured with a snare, so are men seized in the evil time, when it will suddenly overwhelm them.

Ecclesiastes 9:12 Cross References

Proverbs 24:22

for destruction will come suddenly from them; who knows what distress these two can bring?

Proverbs 29:6

An evil person is caught by sin, but the righteous one sings and rejoices.

Proverbs 6:15

Therefore calamity will strike him suddenly; he will be shattered instantly, beyond recovery.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the fate of the children of Adam and the fate of animals is the same.  As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath. People have no advantage over animals since everything is futile.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because the sentence against an evil act is not carried out quickly,  the heart of people is filled with the desire to commit evil.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one has authority over the wind  to restrain it,  and there is no authority over the day of death;  no one is discharged during battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practise it to escape.

Ecclesiastes 9:13

I have observed that this also is wisdom under the sun, and it is significant to me:

Isaiah 24:18

Whoever flees at the sound of panic will fall into a pit, and whoever escapes from the pit will be caught in a trap. For the floodgates on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Isaiah 30:13

this iniquity  of yours will be like a crumbling gap, a bulge in a high wall whose collapse will come in an instant #– #suddenly!

Ezekiel 32:3

‘ “This is what the Lord God says: I will spread my net over you with an assembly of many peoples, and they  will haul you up in my net.

Hosea 7:12

As they are going, I will spread my net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the sky. I will discipline them in accordance with the news that reaches  their assembly.

Hosea 9:8

Ephraim’s watchman is with my God. Yet the prophet encounters a bird trap on all his pathways. Hostility is in the house of his God!

Luke 12:20

‘But God said to him, “You fool!   This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared #– #whose will they be? ”

Luke 12:39

But know this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming,   he would not have let his house be broken into.

2 Corinthians 6:2

For he says: At an acceptable time I listened to you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.   , See, now is the acceptable time; now is the day of salvation!

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, ‘Peace and security’, then sudden destruction  will come upon them, like labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

2 Timothy 2:26

Then they may come to their senses and escape the trap of the devil,  who has taken them captive to do his will.

1 Peter 2:12

Conduct  yourselves honourably among the Gentiles,  so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.

2 Peter 2:12

But these people, like irrational animals #– #creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed #– #slander what they do not understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed.