For their calamity shall rise suddenly; And the destruction from them both, who knoweth it?
Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after man’s command.
Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?
The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own life.
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death; But a wise man will pacify it.
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.
For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
And all the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.
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.