Ecclesiastes 9:12
For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
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.
For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish 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 falls suddenly on them.
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.
Read Ecclesiastes 9 in context
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- man
- Ecclesiastes 8:5–7, 11; Luke 19:42–44; 2 Corinthians 6:2; 1 Peter 2:12
- as the fishes
- Proverbs 7:22, 23; Habakkuk 1:14–17; 2 Timothy 2:26
- the sons
- Job 18:8–10; Psalm 11:6; Psalm 73:18–20; Proverbs 6:15; Proverbs 29:6; Isaiah 30:13; Luke 12:20, 39; Luke 17:26–31; Luke 21:34–36; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; 2 Peter 2:12