Ecclesiastes 9:12

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

A man knoweth not his end; but as fishes be taken with an hook, and as birds be taken with a snare, so men be taken in evil time, when it cometh suddenly [up] on them.

Cross References

Psalm 11:6

He shall rain snares upon sinners; fire, and brimstone, and the spirit of tempests be the part of the cup of them.

Proverbs 24:22

For their perdition shall rise together suddenly, and who knoweth the fall of ever either?

Proverbs 29:6

A snare shall wrap a wicked man doing sin; and a just [or rightwise] man shall praise, and make joy.

Proverbs 6:15

His perdition shall come to him anon, and he shall be broken suddenly; and he shall no more have medicine.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

Therefore one is the perishing of man and of beasts, and even condition is of ever either; as a man dieth, so and those beasts die; all those breathe in like manner, and a man hath nothing more than a beast. All things be subject to vanity,

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Forsooth for the sentence is not brought forth soon against evil men, the sons of men do evils without any dread.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

It is not in the power of man to forbid the spirit, that is, his soul, from going out from the body, neither he hath power in the day of death, neither he is suffered to have rest, when the battle nigheth; neither wickedness shall save a wicked man.

Ecclesiastes 9:13

Also I saw this wisdom under the sun, and I proved it the most.

Isaiah 24:18

And it shall be, he that shall flee from the face of fearedfulness, shall fall into the ditch; and he that shall deliver himself from the ditch, shall be holden of the snare; for why the windows of high things be opened, and the foundaments of [the] earth shall be shaken together.

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this wickedness shall be to you as a breaking falling down, and sought in an high wall; for suddenly while it is not hoped, the breaking thereof shall come.

Ezekiel 32:3

Therefore the Lord God saith these things, I shall spread abroad my net [up] on thee in the multitude of many peoples, and I shall draw thee out in my net;

Hosea 7:12

And when they be gone forth, I shall spread abroad on them my net, I shall draw them down as a bird of the air. I shall beat them, by the hearing of the company of them.

Hosea 9:8

The beholder of Ephraim with my God is a prophet; a snare of falling is made now on all the ways of him, strong vengeance is in the house of his God.

Luke 12:20

And God said to him, Fool, in this night they shall take thy life from thee [or they shall ask of thee thy soul]. And whose shall those things be, that thou hast arrayed?

Luke 12:39

And know ye this thing, for if an husbandman knew, in what hour the thief would come, soothly he should wake, and not suffer his house to be under-mined.

2 Corinthians 6:2

For he saith, In time well-pleasing I have heard thee, and in the day of health, I have helped thee. Lo! now a time acceptable, lo! now a day of health.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they shall say peace is, and secureness, then sudden death [or suddenly perishing] shall come on them, as sorrow to a woman that is with child, and they shall not escape.

2 Timothy 2:26

and that they rise again from the snares of the devil, of whom they be held prisoners at his will.

1 Peter 2:12

and have ye your conversation [or your life] good among heathen men, that in that thing that they backbite of you, as of mis-doers, they behold you of good works, and glorify God in the day of visitation.

2 Peter 2:12

But these be as unreasonable beasts, kindly, into taking, and into death, blaspheming in these things that they know not, and shall perish in their corruption,