Ecclesiastes 9:12

Modern English Version

For no one knows his appointed time. Like fish caught in a cruel net, like birds caught in a snare, so people are ensnared in an evil time, when it suddenly falls on them.

Cross References

Psalm 11:6

On the wicked He will rain coals of fire and brimstone; a burning wind will be the portion of their cup.

Proverbs 24:22

for their calamity will rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin those two can bring?

Proverbs 29:6

An evil man is ensnared by his sin, but a righteous man sings and rejoices.

Proverbs 6:15

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly; suddenly he will be broken without remedy.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For there is an event for people and an event for animals, one fate for them both; as one dies, so does the other; there is one breath for all of them. There is no advantage for people over animals, for everything is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of people is fully set to do evil.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No person has power over the wind to restrain it, or power over the day of death. No one is discharged from war, nor will wickedness release those who practice.

Ecclesiastes 9:13

I have observed that this also is wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

Isaiah 24:18

He who flees from the report of disaster shall fall into the pit, and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth shake.

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling up in a high wall, whose collapse comes suddenly, in an instant.

Ezekiel 32:3

Thus says the Lord God: I will therefore spread out My net over you with a company of many peoples, and they shall bring you up in My net.

Hosea 7:12

Wherever they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the sky; I will discipline them according to the report to their congregation.

Hosea 9:8

The watchman of Ephraim is a prophet for my God; yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

Luke 12:20

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This night your soul will be required of you. Then whose will those things be which you have provided?’

Luke 12:39

But know this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched and not have allowed his house to be broken into.

2 Corinthians 6:2

For He says: “In an acceptable time I have listened to you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

2 Timothy 2:26

and they may escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

1 Peter 2:12

Live your lives honorably among the Gentiles, so that though they speak against you as evildoers, they shall see your good works and thereby glorify God in the day of visitation.

2 Peter 2:12

But these people are like irrational animals, born to be captured and destroyed. They speak evil of the things that they do not understand, and in their corruption they will be destroyed.