Ecclesiastes 9:12 Cross References - ACV

¹² For man also does not know 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 falls suddenly upon them.

⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon the toils. ⁹ A trap shall take him by the heel. A snare shall lay hold on him. ¹⁰ A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

⁶ He will rain snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.

¹⁸ Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction. ¹⁹ How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors. ²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, when thou waken, thou will despise their form.

¹⁵ Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly. Suddenly he shall be broken, and that without remedy.

²² He goes after her straightaway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, ²³ till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.

⁶ In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare, but a righteous man sings and rejoices.

⁵ He who keeps a commandment shall know no evil thing. And a wise man's heart discerns the time and decision. ⁶ For to every purpose there is a time and decision, although the distress of man is great upon him. ⁷ For he knows not that which shall be, for who can tell him how it shall be?

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.

¹³ therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

¹⁴ and makes men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? ¹⁵ He takes all of them up with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his drag. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. ¹⁶ Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his drag, because by them his portion is fat, and his food plentiful. ¹⁷ Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to kill the nations continually?

²⁰ But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be?

³⁹ But know this, that if the house-ruler had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

²⁶ And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so also it will be in the days of the Son of man. ²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ And likewise as it happened in the days of Lot. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built. ²⁹ But in that day Lot went out from Sodom he rained fire and brimstone from the sky, and destroyed them all. ³⁰ It will be according to these things in that day the Son of man is revealed. ³¹ In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his vessels in the house, let him not go down to take them up. And let him who is in the field likewise not return for the things behind.

⁴² saying, If thou knew, even thou, indeed even in this thy day, the things for thy peace. But now they are hidden from thine eyes. ⁴³ Because the days will come upon thee, and thine enemies will build a barricade around thee, and will surround thee, and enclose thee on every side. ⁴⁴ And they will raze thee and thy children within thee. And they will not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou knew not the time of thy visitation.

³⁴ But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down in debauchery and drunkenness and mundane cares, and that day come upon you sudden. ³⁵ For it will come like a trap upon all those who sit upon the face of all the earth. ³⁶ Watch ye therefore, making supplication at all times, so that ye may be considered worthy to escape all these things going to happen, and to stand before the Son of man.

² (for he says, At an acceptable time I heard thee, and in a day of salvation I helped thee. Behold, now is an acceptable time. Behold, now is a day of salvation),

³ For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.

²⁶ and they may sober up out of the snare of the devil, having been captured by him for his will.

¹² Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works.

¹² But these men, like irrational beasts of nature, having been born for capture and destruction, speaking evil at which things they do not understand, will be destroyed in their corruption,