Ecclesiastes 9:12

Modern King James Version

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; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

Cross References

Psalm 11:6

On the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone; and a horrible tempest shall be the portion of their cup.

Proverbs 24:22

for their trouble shall rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin of them both?

Proverbs 29:6

In the sin of an evil man there is a snare; but the righteous sings and rejoices.

Proverbs 6:15

Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; he is quickly broken, and there is no healing.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For that which happens to the sons of men also happens to beasts, even one thing happens to them. As this one dies, so that one dies; yea, they all have one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast; for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man who has power over the spirit to keep the spirit; nor power in the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war; nor shall wickedness deliver its owners.

Ecclesiastes 9:13

This wisdom I have seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

Isaiah 24:18

And it shall be, he who flees from the sound of dread 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 opened, and the foundations of the earth quake.

Isaiah 30:13

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

Ezekiel 32:3

So says the Lord Jehovah: I will therefore spread out My net over you with an assembly of many peoples; and they shall lift you up in My net.

Hosea 7:12

When they go, I will spread My net on them; I will bring them down like the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as a report to their congregation.

Hosea 9:8

The watchman of Ephraim was with my God. The prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul shall be required of you, then whose shall be those things which you have prepared?

Luke 12:39

And know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and would not have allowed his house to be dug through.

2 Corinthians 6:2

(For He says, "In an acceptable time I heard you, and in a day of salvation, I helped you;" Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.)

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.

2 Timothy 2:26

and that they awake out of the snare of the Devil, having been taken captive by him, so as to do the will of that one.

1 Peter 2:12

having your conduct honest among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in a day of His visitation, seeing your good works.

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as unreasoning natural brute animals having been born for capture and corruption, speak evil of the things that they do not understand. And they will utterly perish in their own corruption,