For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and the destruction from them both, who knows it?
Ephraim is oppressed. He is crushed in judgment, because he was content to walk after [man's] command.
Who knows the power of thine anger, and thy wrath according to the fear that is due to thee?
The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger sins [against] his own life.
The wrath of a king is messengers of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly. Suddenly he shall be broken, and that without remedy.
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
And all the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and every man went his way.
For man also does not know 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 falls suddenly upon them.