Ecclesiastes 9:12

Coverdale Bible (1535)

For a man knoweth not his tyme, but like as the fyshe are take with the angle, and as the byrdes are catched wt the snare: Eue so are men taken in the perilous tyme, when it commeth sodenly vpon them.

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  • Prov 29:6 : 6 The synne of ye wicked is his owne snare, but ye righteous shal be glad and reioyse.
  • Eccl 8:5-7 : 5 Who so kepeth the commaundement, shall fele no harme: but a wyse mans herte discerneth tyme and maner: 6 For euery thinge wil haue opportunite and iudgment, and this is the thinge that maketh men full of carefulnes & sorowe. 7 And why? a man knoweth not what is for to come, for who wyll tell him?
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For whan they shal saye: Tush, It is peace, there is no daunger, then shall soden destruccion come vpo the, euen as the payne of a woman trauaylinge with childe, and they shal not escape.
  • Luke 21:34-36 : 34 But take hede vnto youre selues, that yor hertes be not ouerlade with excesse of eatinge and with dronkennes, and with takinge of thought for lyuynge, and so this daye come vpo you vnawares. 35 For as a snare shal it come on all them that dwell vpon earth. 36 Watch therfore cotynually, and praye, that ye maye be worthy to escape all this that shal come, & to stode before ye sonne of man.
  • 2 Cor 6:2 : 2 For he sayeth: I haue herde the in the tyme accepted, and in the daye of saluacion haue I succoured the. Beholde, now is the accepted tyme, now is the daye of saluacion.
  • 2 Tim 2:26 : 26 and to turne agayne from the snare of the deuell, which are holden in preson of him at his will.
  • 1 Pet 2:12 : 12 and lede an honest conuersacion amonge the Heythen, that they which bacbyte you as euell doers, maye se youre good workes, and prayse God in the daye of visitacion.
  • 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these are as ye brute beestes, which naturally are broughte forth to be take and destroyed: speakynge euell of yt they knowe not, and shal perishe in their owne destruccion,
  • Job 18:8-9 : 8 For his fete shalbe taken in the nett, and he shal walke in the snare. 9 His fote shalbe holden in the gilder, and the thurstie shal catch him. 10 The snare is layed for him in the grounde, and a pytfall in the waye.
  • Ps 11:6 : 6 Vpon the vngodly he shal rayne snares, fyre, brymstone, storme and tempest: this rewarde shal they haue to drynke.
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Namely, how thou hast set the in a slippery place, that thou maiest cast the downe headlynges & destroye the. 19 O how sodenly do they consume, perish, & come to a fearfull ende? 20 Yee euen like as a dreame when one awaketh, so makest thou their ymage to vanish out of the cite.
  • Prov 6:15 : 15 Therfore shal his destruccion come hastely vpo him, sodenly shal he be all tobroken, and not be healed.
  • Prov 7:22-23 : 22 Immediatly he foloweth her, as it were an oxeled to the slaughter (and like as it were to the stockes, where fooles are punyshed) 23 so longe till she hath wounded his lyuer with hir darte: like as yf a byrde haisted to the snare, not knowinge that the parell of his life lyeth there vpo.
  • Eccl 8:11 : 11 Because now that euell workes are not haistely punyshed, the hert of man geueth him self ouer vnto wickednesse:
  • Isa 30:13 : 13 therfore shal ye haue this myschefe agayne for youre destruction and fall, like as an hie wall, that falleth because of some rift (or blast,) whose breakinge cometh sodenly.
  • Hab 1:14-17 : 14 Thou makest men as the fish in the see, and like as the crepinge beestes, that haue no gyde. 15 They take vp all with their angle, they catch it in their net, & gather it in their yarne: wherof they reioyce and are glad. 16 Therfore offre they vnto their net, and do sacrifice vnto their yarne: because that thorow it their porcion is become so fat, and their meate so pleteous. 17 Wherfore they cast out their net agayne, & neuer ceasse to slaye the people.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God sayde vnto him: Thou foole, this night shal they requyre thy soule from the, and whose shal it be that thou hast prepared?
  • Luke 12:39 : 39 But be sure of this, that yf the good man of the house knewe, what houre the thefe wolde come, he wolde surely watch, and not suffre his house to be broken vp.
  • Luke 17:26-31 : 26 And as it came to passe in the tyme of Noe, so shal it come to passe also in ye dayes of the sonne of man. 27 They ate, they dranke, they maried, and were maried, euen vnto ye daye that Noe wente in to the Arke, and ye floude came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewyse also as it came to passe in the tyme of Lot, they ate, they dranke, they bought, they solde, they planted, they buylded. 29 But euen the same daye that Lot wente out of Sodom, it rayned fyre and brymstone from heaue, and destroyed them all. 30 After this maner also shal it go, in the daye whan the sonne of man shal appeare. 31 In that daye, who so is vpo the rofe, and his stuffe in ye house, let him not come downe to fetch it: Likewyse he that is in the felde, let him not turne backe, for it that is behynde him.
  • Luke 19:42-44 : 42 and sayde: Yf thou knewest what were for yi peace, thou shuldest remebre it euen in this present daye of thine. But now is it hyd from thine eyes. 43 For the tyme shal come vpon the, that thine enimies shal cast vp a bake aboute the, and aboute thy children with the, and besege ye, and kepe the in on euery syde, 44 and make the eauen with the grounde, and shal not leaue in the one stone vpon another, because thou hast not knowne ye tyme, wherin thou hast bene visited.

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    6For euery thinge wil haue opportunite and iudgment, and this is the thinge that maketh men full of carefulnes & sorowe.

    7And why? a man knoweth not what is for to come, for who wyll tell him?

    8Nether is there eny ma yt hath power ouer ye sprete, to kepe stil ye sprete, ner to haue eny power in the tyme of death: It is not he also that can make an ende of the batayll, nether maye vngodlynes delyuer him yt medleth withall.

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    8For his fete shalbe taken in the nett, and he shal walke in the snare.

    9His fote shalbe holden in the gilder, and the thurstie shal catch him.

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