Ecclesiastes 9:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Man

As the fishes

Proverbs 7:22

Habakkuk 1:14

2 Timothy 2:26

The sons

General references

Ezekiel 32:3

Amos 3:5

Bible References

Man

He who keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.

Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong to thy peace! but now they are hid from thy eyes.

(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

Having your manner of life honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

As the fishes

He goeth after her quickly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping animals that have no ruler over them?

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

The sons

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

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

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou didst cast them down into destruction.

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

Therefore 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.

But God said to him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

And 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.

For 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.

But 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:

General references

Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.

Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?