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.
As the fishes
The sons
General references
Bible References
Man
Ecclesiastes 8:5
He who keeps a royal command experiences no trouble, for a wise heart knows the proper time and procedure.
Luke 19:42
saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.
2 Corinthians 6:2
for He says,
“At the acceptable time I listened to you,
And on the day of salvation I helped you.”
Behold, now is “the acceptable time,” behold, now is “the day of salvation”—
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And on the day of salvation I helped you.”
Behold, now is “the acceptable time,” behold, now is “the day of salvation”—
1 Peter 2:12 Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.
As the fishes
Proverbs 7:22 Suddenly he follows her
As an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or asone in fetters to the discipline of a fool,
As an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or as
Habakkuk 1:14 Why have You made men like the fish of the sea,
Like creeping things without a ruler over them?
Like creeping things without a ruler over them?
2 Timothy 2:26
and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.
The sons
Job 18:8 “For he is thrown into the net by his own feet,
And he steps on the webbing.
And he steps on the webbing.
Psalm 11:6 Upon the wicked He will rain snares;
Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup.
Psalm 73:18 Surely You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down todestruction.
You cast them down to
Proverbs 6:15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly;
Instantly he will be broken and there will be no healing.
Proverbs 29:6 By transgression an evil man is ensnared,
But the righteoussings and rejoices.
But the righteous
Isaiah 30:13 Therefore this iniquity will be to you
Like abreach about to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose collapse comessuddenly in an instant,
Like a
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose collapse comes
Luke 12:20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?’
Luke 17:26 And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
Luke 21:34 “Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap;
1 Thessalonians 5:3
While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.
2 Peter 2:12
But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,
General references
Ezekiel 32:3
Thus says the Lord God,
“Now I willspread My net over you
With a company of many peoples,
And they shall lift you up in My net.
“Now I will
With a company of many peoples,
And they shall lift you up in My net.
Amos 3:5 Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no bait in it?
Does a trap spring up from the earth when it captures nothing at all?
Does a trap spring up from the earth when it captures nothing at all?