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

Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way.

saying, "Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

For he says, "In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you."Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

As the fishes

All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast

You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.

and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

The sons

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.

Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.

therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.

An evil man is ensnared in his transgression, but a righteous man sings and rejoices.

therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

"But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.

While people are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,

General references

Thus says the Lord GOD: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my dragnet.

Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth, when there is no trap for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when it has taken nothing?