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 obeys [his] command will not suffer disaster. The wise mind knows the [proper] time and the right [procedure].

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

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!

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.

As the fishes

He goes after her suddenly; like an ox to the slaughter he goes, and like a stag to the instruction of a fool,

You make humankind like fish of the sea, like crawling creatures that have no ruler among them.

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.

The sons

for he is thrust into a net by his feet, and he walks into a pitfall.

He will rain coals on [the] wicked. Burning sulfur and scorching wind [will be] the portion of their cup.

Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.

Upon {such a man}, suddenly shall his calamity come; in a moment he will be damaged and there is no healing.

In transgression, an evil man [is] a snare, but [the] righteous will sing and rejoice.

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.

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?'

And just as it was in the days of Noah, so also it will be in the days of the Son of Man--

"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

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.

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,

General references

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now I will spread my net over you in [the] assembly of many peoples, and I will bring you up in my dragnet.

Does a bird fall into a trapping net on the earth when there is no snare for it? Does a trapping net spring up from the ground unless it has certainly caught something?