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 5:3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
• Luke 21:34–36And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
• Eccl 8:5–7Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.
• Prov 6:15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
• Prov 29:6In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
• Luke 12:20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
• Ps 73:18–20Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
• 2 Cor 6:2(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
• 2 Tim 2:26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
• Prov 7:22–23He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
• Job 18:8–10For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
• Isa 30:13Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
• Ps 11:6Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
• 2 Pet 2:12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
• Luke 17:26–31And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
• Luke 12:39And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
• Luke 19:42–44Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
• Hab 1:14–17And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
• 1 Pet 2:12Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
• Eccl 8:11Because 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.

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