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
Bible References
Man
Luke 19:42
saying, "If you knew, in this your day??ven you??he things pertaining to peace! but just now were they hid from your eyes!
2 Corinthians 6:2
(for He saith, "At an acceptable time I heard Thee, and in a day of salvation did I succor Thee;" behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation);
1 Peter 2:12
having your conduct seemly among the gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may, from your good works which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
As the fishes
2 Timothy 2:26
and they may return to soberness out of the snare of the Devil, having been taken captive by him in accordance with his will.
The sons
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, 'Senseless one! this night they require your soul of you; and the things you prepared, whose shall they be?'
Luke 17:26
"And, as it happened in the days of Noah, so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man:
Luke 21:34
"But take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with gluttony and drunkenness, and anxieties pertaining to life, and that day come upon you suddenly as a snare;
1 Thessalonians 5:3
When they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in nowise escape.
2 Peter 2:12
But these, as irrational creatures, born naturally for capture and destruction, railing in matters of which they are ignorant, shall in their destruction be also destroyed,