Ecclesiastes 9:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For no one can anticipate one’s time. Like fish taken in a cruel net or like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.

Cross References

Psalm 11:6

On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and sulfur; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

Proverbs 24:22

for disaster comes from them suddenly, and who knows the ruin that both can bring?

Proverbs 29:6

In the transgression of the evil there is a snare, but the righteous sing and rejoice.

Proverbs 6:15

on such a one calamity will descend suddenly, in a moment, damage beyond repair.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

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

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one has power over the wind to restrain the wind or power over the day of death; there is no discharge from the battle, nor does wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Ecclesiastes 9:13

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

Isaiah 24:18

Whoever flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and whoever climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this iniquity shall become for you like a break in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant;

Ezekiel 32:3

Thus says the Lord God: In an assembly of many peoples I will throw my net over you, and I will haul you up in my dragnet.

Hosea 7:12

As they go, I will cast my net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will discipline them according to the report made to their assembly.

Hosea 9:8

The prophet is a sentinel for my God over Ephraim, yet a hunter’s snare is on all his ways and hostility in the house of his God.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

Luke 12:39

“But know 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.

2 Corinthians 6:2

For he says, “At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you.” Look, now is the acceptable time; look, now is the day of salvation!

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!

2 Timothy 2:26

and that they may escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.

1 Peter 2:12

Conduct yourselves honorably among the gentiles, so that, though they malign you as evildoers, they may see your honorable deeds and glorify God when he comes to judge.

2 Peter 2:12

These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and as those creatures are destroyed, they also will be destroyed,