Ecclesiastes 9:12
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.
KJV
Nescit homo finem suum ; sed sicut pisces capiuntur hamo, et sicut aves laqueo comprehenduntur, sic capiuntur homines in tempore malo, cum eis extemplo supervenerit.
Vulgate
ὅτι καί γε καὶ οὐκ ἔγνω ὁ ἄνθρωπος τὸν καιρὸν αὐτοῦ· ὡς οἱ ἰχθύες οἱ θηρευόμενοι ἐν ἀμφιβλήστρῳ καλῷ, καὶ ὡς ὄρνεα τὰ θηρευόμενα ἐν παγίδι, ὡς αὐτὰ παγιδεύονται οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου εἰς καιρὸν πονηρόν, ὅταν ἐπιπέσῃ ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς ἄφνω.
LXX
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, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
ASV
כִּ֡י גַּם֩ לֹֽא יֵדַ֨ע הָ/אָדָ֜ם אֶת עִתּ֗/וֹ כַּ/דָּגִים֙ שֶׁ/נֶּֽאֱחָזִים֙ בִּ/מְצוֹדָ֣ה רָעָ֔ה וְ/כַ֨/צִּפֳּרִ֔ים הָ/אֲחֻז֖וֹת בַּ/פָּ֑ח כָּ/הֵ֗ם יֽוּקָשִׁים֙ בְּנֵ֣י הָֽ/אָדָ֔ם לְ/עֵ֣ת רָעָ֔ה כְּ/שֶׁ/תִּפּ֥וֹל עֲלֵי/הֶ֖ם פִּתְאֹֽם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
19 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Themes
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Thess 5:3 — For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
- 2Cor 6:2 — (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
- 2Pet 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;
- 2Tim 2:26 — And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
- Amos 3:5 — Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
- Amos 5:13 — Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
- Eccl 8:5 — Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.
- Eccl 8:7 — For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
- Ezek 32:3 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
- Hab 1:14 — And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
- Isa 30:13 — Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
- Job 1:13 — And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
- Job 18:8 — For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
- Luke 12:20 — But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
- Luke 12:39 — And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
- Luke 17:26 — And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
- Luke 19:42 — Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
- Luke 21:34 — And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
- Prov 6:15 — Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
- Prov 7:22 — He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
- Prov 7:23 — Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
- Prov 29:6 — In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
- Prov 29:6 — In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
- Ps 11:6 — Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
- Ps 37:19 — They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
- Ps 49:12 — Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
- Ps 73:18 — Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
- Ps 91:3 — Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.