For disaster will issue suddenly, and calamity from them both, who knows when?
All the guests of Adonijah got up trembling, and went each their way,
Who comprehends the strength of your anger? Your wrath matches the fear it inspires.
The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise person can pacify it.
The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; those who incur his anger forfeit their lives.
Though the just fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble from only one mishap.
Therefore their doom comes suddenly; in an instant they are crushed beyond cure.
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.
Ephraim is oppressed, crushed by judgment, for he has willingly gone after filth!