Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in a cruel net and like birds who are seized in a snare, so also {humans} are ensnared at a cruel time when it falls suddenly upon them.
Proverbs 29:6
In transgression, an evil man [is] a snare, but [the] righteous will sing and rejoice.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
Whenever they say "Peace and security," then sudden destruction will overtake them like the birth pains of {a pregnant woman}, and they will not possibly escape.
Job 18:8-10
for he is thrust into a net by his feet, and he walks into a pitfall.
Psalm 11:6
He will rain coals on [the] wicked. Burning sulfur and scorching wind [will be] the portion of their cup.
Psalm 73:18-20
Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.
Proverbs 6:15
Upon {such a man}, suddenly shall his calamity come; in a moment he will be damaged and there is no healing.
Proverbs 7:22-23
He goes after her suddenly; like an ox to the slaughter he goes, and like a stag to the instruction of a fool,
Ecclesiastes 8:5-7
Whoever obeys [his] command will not suffer disaster. The wise mind knows the [proper] time and the right [procedure].
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil deed is not carried out quickly, the heart of {humans} fills up within them to do evil.
Isaiah 30:13
therefore this iniquity shall come for you like a breach about to fall, bulging out on a high wall {that breaks} suddenly, [in] an instant.
Habakkuk 1:14-17
You make humankind like fish of the sea, like crawling creatures that have no ruler among them.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your life is demanded from you, and [the things] which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
Luke 12:39
But understand this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.
Luke 17:26-31
And just as it was in the days of Noah, so also it will be in the days of the Son of Man--
Luke 19:42-44
saying, "If you had known on this day--even you--the things [that make] for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
Luke 21:34-36
"But take care for yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of daily life, and that day come upon you suddenly
2 Corinthians 6:2
For he says, "At the acceptable time I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now [is] the acceptable time; behold, now [is] the day of salvation!
2 Timothy 2:26
and they will come to their senses again [and escape] from the trap of the devil, being held captive by him to [do] his will.
1 Peter 2:12
maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in [the things] in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.
2 Peter 2:12
But these persons, like irrational animals born [only with] natural [instincts] for capture and killing, blaspheming {about things} they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed,