Verse 12
For a man knoweth not his tyme: but like as the fishes are taken with the angle, and as the byrdes are caught with the snare: euen so are men taken in the perillous time, when it commeth sodaynly vpon them.
Referenced Verses
- Prov 29:6 : 6 The sinne of the wicked is his owne snare: but the ryghteous doth syng and reioyce.
- Eccl 8:5-7 : 5 Who so kepeth the commaundement, shall feele no harme: but a wyse mans heart discerneth the tyme and iudgement. 6 For euery thing wyll haue oportunitie and iudgement: and this is the thing that maketh men full of carefulnesse and sorowe. 7 And why? a man knoweth not what is for to come: for who can tell hym when it shalbe?
- 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they shal say peace & safetie, then shall sodeyne destruction come vppon them, as sorowe vpon a woman with chylde, and they shall not escape.
- Luke 21:34-36 : 34 Take heede to your selues, lest at any tyme your heartes be ouercome with surfettyng and dronkennesse, and cares of this lyfe, and so the daye come vpon you vnwares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on al them that dwell on the face of ye whole earth. 36 Watche ye therfore, and pray continually, that ye may be accompted worthy to escape all these thinges yt shall come, & that ye may stand before ye sonne of man.
- 2 Cor 6:2 : 2 For he saith: I haue heard thee in a tyme accepted, and in the day of saluation haue I suckoured thee. Beholde, nowe is that accepted tyme, beholde nowe is that day of saluation:
- 2 Tim 2:26 : 26 And that they may come to the selues agayne, out of the snare of the deuyll, which are holden captyue of hym at his wyll.
- 1 Pet 2:12 : 12 And see that ye haue honest conuersation among the gentiles: that where as they backbite you as euyll doers, they may by your good workes whiche they shall see, prayse God in the day of visitation.
- 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these, as bruite beastes ledde with sensualitie, and made to be taken and destroyed, speake euyll of the thynges that they vnderstande not, and shall perishe through their owne corruption,
- Job 18:8-9 : 8 For his feete are taken as it were in the net, & he walketh vpon the snares. 9 The grinne shall take him by the heele, and it shall catche him that is thirstie of blood. 10 The snare is layde for him in the grounde, and a pitfall in the way.
- Ps 11:6 : 6 Upon ye vngodly he wyl rayne snares, fire and brimstone: and tempestious stormes shalbe their portion to drinke.
- Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Truely thou doest set them in slippery places: and castest them downe headlong for to be destroyed. 19 Oh howe be they brought to a destruction euen vpon a sodayne: they faynt, they consume away for very dread. 20 They be as a dreame to a man after he is once waked: O Lorde thou wylt cause their image to be dispised in the citie.
- Prov 6:15 : 15 Therefore shall his destruction come hastyly vpon hym, sodainly shall he be all to broken, and not be healed.
- Prov 7:22-23 : 22 Sodainly he folowed her, as it were an oxe led to the slaughter, and lyke as it were a foole that laugheth when he goeth to the stockes to be punished, 23 So long tyll she had wounded his lyuer with her dart: lyke as if a byrde hasted to the snare, not knowing that the perill of his life lieth thervpon.
- Eccl 8:11 : 11 Because nowe that euyll workes are not hastyly punished, the heart of man geueth hym selfe ouer vnto wickednesse.
- Isa 30:13 : 13 Therfore shall ye haue this mischiefe for your destruction and fall, like as an hye wall that falleth because of some rift or blast, whose breakyng commeth sodainly.
- Hab 1:14-17 : 14 And makest men as the fishe of the sea, and as the creeping thinges that haue no ruler ouer them. 15 They take vp all with the angle, they catche it in their net, and gather it in their yarne: wherof they reioyce and are glad. 16 Therfore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their yarne: because by them their portion is fat, and their meate plenteous. 17 Shall they therfore stretche out their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
- Luke 12:20 : 20 But God sayde vnto hym: Thou foole, this nyght wyll they fetch awaye thy soule againe fro thee: Then whose shall those thynges be, which thou hast prouided?
- Luke 12:39 : 39 This vnderstande, that yf the good man of the house knew what houre the thiefe woulde come, he woulde surely watche, and not suffer his house to be dygged through.
- Luke 17:26-31 : 26 And as it was in the dayes of Noe: so shall it be also in the dayes of the sonne of man. 27 They dyd eate, and drynke, they maryed wiues, and were maryed, euen vnto the same day that Noe went into the Arke: and the fludde came, & destroyed them all. 28 Lykewyse also as it was in the dayes of Lot: they dyd eate, they dranke, they bought, they solde, they planted, they buylded: 29 But euen the same day that Lot went out of Sodome, it rayned fire and brimstone from heauen, and destroyed them all. 30 Euen thus shall it be, in the day when the sonne of man shalbe reuealed. 31 At that day, he which is on the house top, and his stuffe in the house, let him not come downe to take it out: And let not him that is in the fielde, turne backe agayne lykewyse, to the thynges that he left behynde.
- Luke 19:42-44 : 42 Saying: If thou haddest knowen those thynges whiche belong vnto thy peace, euen in this thy day: But nowe are they hyd from thyne eyes. 43 For the dayes shall come vpon thee, that thyne enemies also shall caste a banke about thee, and compasse thee rounde, and kepe thee in on euery syde: 44 And make thee euen with ye grounde, and thy chyldren which are in thee: and they shall not leaue in thee one stone vpo another, because thou knowest not the tyme of thy visitation.