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 watching the command knew no evil word: and time and judgment the wise one will know.

Saying, That if thou knewest, also thou, and also in this thy day, the things for thy peace! and now have they been hid from thine eyes.

(For he says, In an acceptable time I listened to thee, and in the day of salvation have I run to succor thee: behold, now the acceptable time; behold; now the day of salvation.)

Having your turning back good in the nations: that, in what they speak against you as doing evil, from good works, they having beheld, might praise God in the day of inspection.

As the fishes

He went after her suddenly as the ox will go to the slaughter, and as the fetter for the correction of the foolish.

And wilt thou make man as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping thing no ruler over him?

That they may return to a state of sobriety from the snare of the devil, being taken alive by him at his will.

The sons

For he was cast into a net by his feet, and he will go about upon latticework.

He will rain upon the, unjust, snares, fire and brimstone, and a wind of violent heat: the portion of their cup.

Surely in slippery places thou wilt set them, to cast them down into ruins.

For this, his destruction shall come suddenly; in a moment he shall be broken, and none healing.

In the transgression of an evil man is a snare: and the just one shall rejoice and be glad:

For this, this iniquity shall be to you as a breach falling, gushing out in a high wall, of which the breaking will come suddenly at a moment

And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?

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

And attend to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be loaded with dizziness, caused by excess, and drunkenness, and cares of life, and that day come upon you unexpectedly.

For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape.

But these, as natural irrational living creatures, having been for catching and destroying, defaming in what things they are ignorant of; and shall be destroyed in their corruption;

General references

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: and I spread my net over thee with a convocation of many peoples; and they brought thee up in my net

Will the bird fall upon the snare of the earth and no noose for her? shall a snare be brought up from the earth and a taking shall not be taken?