Ecclesiastes 9:12

Good News Translation

You never know when your time is coming. Like birds suddenly caught in a trap, like fish caught in a net, we are trapped at some evil moment when we least expect it.

Cross References

Psalm 11:6

He sends down flaming coals and burning sulfur on the wicked; he punishes them with scorching winds.

Proverbs 24:22

such people could be ruined in a moment. Do you realize the disaster that God or the king can cause?

Proverbs 29:6

Evil people are trapped in their own sins, while honest people are happy and free.

Proverbs 6:15

Because of this, disaster will strike them without warning, and they will be fatally wounded.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

After all, the same fate awaits human beings and animals alike. One dies just like the other. They are the same kind of creature. A human being is no better off than an animal, because life has no meaning for either.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Why do people commit crimes so readily? Because crime is not punished quickly enough.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one can keep from dying or put off the day of death. That is a battle we cannot escape; we cannot cheat our way out.

Ecclesiastes 9:13

There is something else I saw, a good example of how wisdom is regarded in this world.

Isaiah 24:18

Anyone who tries to escape from the terror will fall in a pit, and anyone who escapes from the pit will be caught in a trap. Torrents of rain will pour from the sky, and earth's foundations will shake.

Isaiah 30:13

You are guilty. You are like a high wall with a crack running down it; suddenly you will collapse.

Ezekiel 32:3

When many nations gather, I will catch you in my net and let them drag the net ashore.

Hosea 7:12

But I will spread out a net and catch them like birds as they go by. I will punish them for the evil they have done.

Hosea 9:8

God has sent me as a prophet to warn his people Israel. Yet wherever I go, you try to trap me like a bird. Even in God's Temple the people are the prophet's enemies.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself?’”

Luke 12:39

And you can be sure that if the owner of a house knew the time when the thief would come, he would not let the thief break into his house.

2 Corinthians 6:2

Hear what God says: “When the time came for me to show you favor, I heard you; when the day arrived for me to save you, I helped you.” Listen! This is the hour to receive God's favor; today is the day to be saved!

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people say, “Everything is quiet and safe,” then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.

2 Timothy 2:26

And then they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the Devil, who had caught them and made them obey his will.

1 Peter 2:12

Your conduct among the heathen should be so good that when they accuse you of being evildoers, they will have to recognize your good deeds and so praise God on the Day of his coming.

2 Peter 2:12

But these people act by instinct, like wild animals born to be captured and killed; they attack with insults anything they do not understand. They will be destroyed like wild animals,