Ecclesiastes 9:12

New International Version

Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Proverbs 29:6

Evildoers are snared by their own sin, but the righteous shout for joy and are glad.

2 Timothy 2:26

and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

2 Corinthians 6:2

For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.

Proverbs 6:15

Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.

2 Peter 2:12

But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish.

1 Peter 2:12

Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

Luke 12:39

But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

Luke 12:20

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

Isaiah 30:13

this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.

Psalm 11:6

On the wicked he will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 9:13

I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me:

Isaiah 24:18

Whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit; whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare. The floodgates of the heavens are opened, the foundations of the earth shake.

Hosea 9:8

The prophet, along with my God, is the watchman over Ephraim, yet snares await him on all his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

Proverbs 24:22

for those two will send sudden destruction on them, and who knows what calamities they can bring?

Ecclesiastes 8:8

As no one has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has power over the time of their death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Ezekiel 32:3

“ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ ‘With a great throng of people I will cast my net over you, and they will haul you up in my net.

Hosea 7:12

When they go, I will throw my net over them; I will pull them down like the birds in the sky. When I hear them flocking together, I will catch them.