Ecclesiastes 9:12
For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
Cross References
Luke 21:34
But 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.

Luke 21:35
For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of all the earth.

Proverbs 7:23
until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare--not knowing it will cost him his life.

Proverbs 29:6
An evil man is caught by his own sin, but a righteous one sings and rejoices.

Ecclesiastes 3:19
For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other--they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.

Ecclesiastes 8:7
Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

Ecclesiastes 9:13
I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, and it was great to me:

Isaiah 24:18
Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Hosea 9:8
The prophet is Ephraim's watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God!


Treasury of Scripture
For man also knows 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 falls suddenly on them.

man



Ecclesiastes 8:5-7,11
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment…



Luke 19:42-44
Saying, 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…



2 Corinthians 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.)

as the fishes



Proverbs 7:22,23
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; …



Habakkuk 1:14-17
And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? …



2 Timothy 2:26
And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

the sons



Job 18:8-10
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare…



Psalm 11:6
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.



Psalm 73:18-20
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction…


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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