Ecclesiastes 9:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹² For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For man also knows not his time [of death]: as the fishes are taken in an evil net, and as the birds are caught in the snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when [calamity] falls suddenly upon them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Common English Bible

¹² People most definitely don’t know when their time will come. Like fish tragically caught in a net or like birds trapped in a snare, so are human beings caught in a time of tragedy that suddenly falls to them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Man does not know his own end. But, just as fish are caught with a hook, and birds are captured with a snare, so are men seized in the evil time, when it will suddenly overwhelm them.

Ecclesiastes 9:12 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 11:6

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

Proverbs 24:22

for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from them both--who knows?

Proverbs 29:6

An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.

Proverbs 6:15

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Ecclesiastes 9:13

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

Isaiah 24:18

It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

Ezekiel 32:3

Thus says the Lord GOD: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.

Hosea 7:12

When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

Hosea 9:8

A prophet watches over Efrayim with my God. A fowler's snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

Luke 12:20

*But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

Luke 12:39

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.

2 Corinthians 6:2

for he says, *At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.* Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they are saying, *Peace and safety,* then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

2 Timothy 2:26

and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

1 Peter 2:12

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,