Ecclesiastes 9:12

People do not know their time, but are suddenly snared like fish in a net or birds in a trap. Calamity and death can fall unexpectedly, so we cannot presume on tomorrow.

Cross-references · 20

• 1 Th 5:3While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
• Luke 21:34–36But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
• Eccl 8:5–7Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure.
• Prov 6:15Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.
• Prov 29:6An evil man is caught by his own sin, but a righteous one sings and rejoices.
• Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
• Ps 73:18–20Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
• 2 Cor 6:2For He says: “In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation!
• 2 Tim 2:26Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.
• Prov 7:22–23He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
• Job 18:8–10For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.
• Isa 30:13this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!
• Ps 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
• 2 Pet 2:12These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.
• Luke 17:26–31Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:
• Luke 12:39But understand this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
• Luke 19:42–44and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.
• Hab 1:14–17You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.
• 1 Pet 2:12Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
• Eccl 8:11When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

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