Verse 12

For man also does not know his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  For mennesket vet ikke sin tid. Som fiskene fanges i en ulykke, og som fuglene fanges i en snare, slik fanges menneskenes barn i en ond tid når den plutselig faller over dem.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For mennesket kjenner heller ikke sin tid: som fiskene som blir fanget i et ondskapsfullt nett, og som fuglene som blir fanget i en snare, slik blir menneskene fanget i en ond tid, når det plutselig faller over dem.

• Norsk King James

  For mennesket vet ikke sin tid: som fiskene som blir fanget i et ondt nett, og som fuglene som fanges i snaren; slik blir menneskenes sønner snared på en uventet tid, når det faller plutselig over dem.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  For mennesket kjenner ikke sin tid, liksom fiskene fanges i et skadelig nett og fuglene fanges i en snare, slik blir også menneskene fanget i ond tid som plutselig faller over dem.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  For mennesket kjenner ikke sin tid. Som fiskene blir fanget i et ondt nett, og fuglene fanget i snaren, så blir menneskene fanget i en ond tid når den plutselig faller over dem.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For mennesket vet ikke sin tid: som fisker blir fanget i et ondt nett, og som fugler fanget i en snare; slik blir også menneskenes sønner fanget i en ond tid, når den plutselig kommer over dem.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For mennesket kjenner heller ikke sitt tidspunkt, slik som fisken som fanges i et ondt nett og fuglene som trekkes inn i en snare – slik fanges også menneskene i de uventede øyeblikk når alt plutselig rammer dem.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  For mennesket vet ikke sin tid: som fisker blir fanget i et ondt nett, og som fugler fanget i en snare; slik blir også menneskenes sønner fanget i en ond tid, når den plutselig kommer over dem.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For heller ikke mennesket vet sin tid som fiskene som blir fanget i det onde garnet, og som fuglene som blir fanget i snaren. Som dem blir menneskene fanget i onde tider når de plutselig faller over dem.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For no one knows their time. Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so are people ensnared by an evil time when it suddenly falls upon them.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  For mennesket kjenner ikke sin tid: Som fisker som blir fanget i en dårlig garnfelle, og som fugler som blir fanget i en snare, slik blir menneskebarna fanget i en ond tid når den plutselig faller over dem.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  at ogsaa Mennesket ikke veed sin Tid, som Fiskene, der fanges med et skadeligt Garn, og som Fuglene, der fanges med Snaren; som de, (saa) blive Menneskens Børn besnærede i en ond Tid, efter som den falder hasteligen over dem.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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 1769 norsk

  For mennesket kjenner heller ikke sin tid: som fiskene som blir fanget i et ondskapsnett, og som fuglene som blir tatt i en snare; slik blir menneskenes barn fanget i en ond tid, når den plutselig faller over dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For mennesket vet heller ikke sin tid. Som fisken som blir fanget i et ondskapsfullt garn, og som fuglene som blir fanget i snaren, slik blir menneskenes sønner fanget i en ond tid, når det plutselig faller over dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  For mennesket vet ikke når tiden kommer; som fiskene som blir fanget i garnet og som fuglene som blir fanget i snaren, slik blir menneskene fanget i onde tider når de plutselig faller over dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For mennesket vet heller ikke sin tid: som fiskene som fanges i det onde nettet, og som fuglene som fanges i snaren, slik blir menneskenes barn fanget i en ond tid, når det plutselig rammer dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Mennesket kjenner heller ikke sin tid; som fisker fanget i et ondt garn eller fugler tatt av bedrag, slik blir menneskene fanget i en ond tid når den plutselig kommer over dem.

• 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.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For neither doth man knowe his time, but as the fishes which are taken in an euill net, and as the birdes that are caught in the snare: so are the children of men snared in the euill time when it falleth vpon them suddenly.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  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.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  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.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these `are' the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.

• World English Bible (2000)

  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.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Surely, no one knows his appointed time! Like fish that are caught in a deadly net, and like birds that are caught in a snare– just like them, all people are ensnared at an unfortunate time that falls upon them suddenly.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 29:6 : 6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare; but the righteous sing and rejoice.
• Eccl 8:5-7 : 5 Whoever keeps the commandment shall feel no evil thing; and a wise man's heart discerns both time and judgment. 6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. 7 For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?
• 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
• Luke 21:34-36 : 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be burdened with surfeiting, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day comes upon you unexpectedly. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.
• 2 Cor 6:2 : 2 For He says, I have heard you in an acceptable time, and in the day of salvation I have helped you; behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
• 2 Tim 2:26 : 26 and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.
• 1 Pet 2:12 : 12 Having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.
• 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption;
• Job 18:8-9 : 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare. 9 The trap shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. 10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
• Ps 11:6 : 6 Upon the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest; this shall be the portion of their cup.
• Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction. 19 How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when You wake up, You shall despise their image.
• Prov 6:15 : 15 Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; suddenly he shall be broken without remedy.
• Prov 7:22-23 : 22 He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 23 Until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and does not know that it is for his life.
• Eccl 8:11 : 11 Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed quickly, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
• Isa 30:13 : 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.
• Hab 1:14-17 : 14 You make men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler over them. 15 They take up all of them with a hook, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragnet; therefore they rejoice and are glad. 16 Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their dragnet; because by them their portion is sumptuous and their food plentiful. 17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
• Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you; then whose shall those things be, which you have provided?
• Luke 12:39 : 39 And know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have allowed his house to be broken into.
• Luke 17:26-31 : 26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man. 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 But on the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. 31 In that day, he who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, let him not come down to take them away: and he who is in the field, let him likewise not turn back.
• Luke 19:42-44 : 42 Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you and enclose you on every side, 44 And will level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.