Ecclesiastes 9:12

The Injustice Of Time And Chance

¹¹ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all. ¹² For man also knows not his time: as the fish 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 falls suddenly upon them. ¹³ This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

Appointed Time

Sons of Men

Children Of Men

No

Proverbs 29:6

In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous does sing and rejoice.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Job 18:8-10

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.

Psalm 11:6

Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

Psalm 73:18-20

Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction.

Proverbs 6:15

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

Proverbs 7:22-23

He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

Ecclesiastes 8:5-7

Whosoever keeps the commandment shall experience no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerns both time and judgment.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Isaiah 30:13

Therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, a bulge in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.

Habakkuk 1:14-17

And make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

Luke 12:20

But God said unto him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you: then whose shall those things be, which you have prepared?

Luke 12:39

And this know, that if the owner of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have allowed his house to be broken through.

Luke 17:26-31

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

Luke 19:42-44

Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things which belong unto your peace! but now they are hid from your eyes.

Luke 21:34-36

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with carousing, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

2 Corinthians 6:2

(For he says, I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I helped you: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

2 Timothy 2:26

And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

1 Peter 2:12

Having your conduct honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;