Ecclesiastes 9:12 - Tree of Life Version

¹² Moreover, no man knows his time: like fish caught in a fatal net or birds caught in a snare, so people are trapped in a time of calamity, that falls upon them suddenly.

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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 down fire, brimstone and scorching wind as the portion of their cup!

Proverbs 24:22

For their destruction will arise suddenly, and who knows the ruin both Adonai and the king can bring?

Proverbs 29:6

In an evil man’s wrongdoing is a trap, but the righteous sings and rejoices.

Proverbs 6:15

Therefore his disaster will come suddenly —in an instant he will be broken, with no remedy.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the destiny of humankind and the destiny of animals are one and the same. As one dies, so dies the other. Both have the same breath—a human has no advantage over an animal—both are fleeting.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

When the sentence against a crime is not swiftly carried out, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, nor authority over the day of death. As no one is discharged during a battle, so wickedness cannot rescue its master.

Ecclesiastes 9:13

I also observed this as wisdom under the sun, and it greatly impressed me.

Isaiah 24:18

And it shall come to pass: whoever flees from the sound of panic will fall in the pit, and whoever climbs up out of the pit will be caught in the trap. For the windows of heaven are opened and the foundations of the earth shake.

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this sin will be to you like a crack bulging in a high wall, about to fall— its collapse comes suddenly, in an instant!

Ezekiel 32:3

Thus says Adonai Elohim: “I will throw My net over you with a host of many peoples. They will haul you up in My net.

Hosea 7:12

As they are going, I will spread out My net over them, I will bring them down like a bird from the sky. I will chasten them as in the report that comes to their assembly.

Hosea 9:8

Ephraim is a watchman with my God, a prophet. A bird catcher’s trap is on all his paths. Hostility is in the House of his God.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! Tonight your soul is being demanded back from you! And what you have prepared, whose will that be?’

Luke 12:39

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

2 Corinthians 6:2

For He says, “At a favorable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they are saying, “Shalom and safety,” sudden destruction comes upon them like a woman having birth pains in the womb—there is no way they will escape.

2 Timothy 2:26

Then they may regain their senses and escape the devil’s snare, in which they had been held captive by him to do his will.

1 Peter 2:12

Keep your conduct honorable among the Gentiles. Then while they speak against you as evildoers, they may—from noticing your good deeds—glorify God in the day of visitation.

2 Peter 2:12

But these people are like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be captured and killed. They malign what they don’t understand, and in their destruction they will be utterly destroyed.