Ecclesiastes 9:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Human beings no more know their own time than fish taken in the fatal net or birds trapped in the snare; like these, mortals are caught when an evil time suddenly falls upon them. The Uncertain Future and the Sages.

Cross References

Psalm 11:6

And rains upon the wicked fiery coals and brimstone, a scorching wind their allotted cup.

Proverbs 24:22

For disaster will issue suddenly, and calamity from them both, who knows when?

Proverbs 29:6

The sin of the wicked is a trap, but the just run along joyfully.

Proverbs 6:15

Therefore their doom comes suddenly; in an instant they are crushed beyond cure.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the lot of mortals and the lot of beasts is the same lot: The one dies as well as the other. Both have the same life breath. Human beings have no advantage over beasts, but all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not promptly executed, the human heart is filled with the desire to commit evil—

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one is master of the breath of life so as to retain it, and none has mastery of the day of death. There is no exemption in wartime, nor does wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Ecclesiastes 9:13

On the other hand I saw this wise deed under the sun, which I thought magnificent.

Isaiah 24:18

One who flees at the sound of terror will fall into the pit; One who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the trap. For the windows on high are open and the foundations of the earth shake.

Isaiah 30:13

This iniquity of yours shall be like a descending rift Bulging out in a high wall whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant,

Ezekiel 32:3

Thus says the Lord God: I will cast my net over you by assembling many armies, and I will hoist you up in my mesh.

Hosea 7:12

When they go I will spread my net around them, like birds in the air I will bring them down. I will chastise them when I hear of their assembly.

Hosea 9:8

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

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’

Luke 12:39

Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

2 Corinthians 6:2

For he says: “In an acceptable time I heard you, and on the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people are saying, “Peace and security,” then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

2 Timothy 2:26

and that they may return to their senses out of the devil’s snare, where they are entrapped by him, for his will.

1 Peter 2:12

Maintain good conduct among the Gentiles, so that if they speak of you as evildoers, they may observe your good works and glorify God on the day of visitation. Christian Citizens.

2 Peter 2:12

But these people, like irrational animals born by nature for capture and destruction, revile things that they do not understand, and in their destruction they will also be destroyed,