Ecclesiastes 9:12
In addition, no human being knows his time: Like fish captured in a cruel net, or as birds caught in a snare, so also are human beings caught by bad timing that surprises them.
Proverbs 29:6
An evil man is trapped by transgression, but the righteous person sings and rejoices.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
When people say, "There is peace and security," destruction will strike them as suddenly as labor pains come to a pregnant woman, and they will not be able to escape.
Job 18:8-10
"For he has stumbled into a net with his own feet; he walked right into the network!
Psalm 11:6
He rains on the wicked burning coals and sulfur; a scorching wind is their destiny.
Psalm 73:18-20
You have certainly set them in slippery places; you will make them fall to their ruin.
Proverbs 6:15
Therefore, disaster will overtake him suddenly. He will be broken in an instant, and he will never recover.
Proverbs 7:22-23
All of a sudden he follows her like an ox fit for slaughter or like a fool fit for a trap
Ecclesiastes 8:5-7
Whoever obeys his commands will not experience harm, and the wise in heart will discern both the appropriate time and response.
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Whenever a sentence for a crime is not carried out swiftly, the human mind becomes determined to commit evil.
Isaiah 30:13
therefore, for you this sin will become like a breach in a high wall that is about to collapse, bulging out, and whose crash comes suddenly in an instant.
Habakkuk 1:14-17
"You have fashioned mankind like fish in the ocean, like creeping things that have no ruler.
Luke 12:20
But God told him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you. Now who will get the things you've accumulated?'
Luke 12:39
But be sure of this: if the homeowner had known at what time the thief were coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into.
Luke 17:26-31
"Just as it was in Noah's time, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man.
Luke 19:42-44
"If you had only known today what could have brought you peace! But now it is hidden from your sight,
Luke 21:34-36
"Constantly be on your guard so that your hearts will not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and the worries of this life, or that day will take you by surprise
2 Corinthians 6:2
For he says, "At the right time I heard you, and on a day of salvation I helped you." Listen, now is really the "right time"! Now is the "day of salvation"!
2 Timothy 2:26
so that they might escape from the Devil's snare, even though they've been held captive by him to do his will.
1 Peter 2:12
Continue to live such upright lives among the gentiles that, when they slander you as practicers of evil, they may see your good actions and glorify God when he visits them.
2 Peter 2:12
These people, like irrational animals, are mere creatures of instinct that are born to be caught and killed. They insult what they don't understand, and like animals they, too, will be destroyed,