Ecclesiastes 9:12
"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."
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- 1 Thessalonians 5:3
"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape."
Read in chapter → - Luke 21:34
"And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 6:15
"Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 29:6
"In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 8:5
"Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 73:18
"Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction."
Read in chapter → - Luke 12:20
"But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?"
Read in chapter → - Job 18:8
"For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare."
Read in chapter → - 2 Peter 2:12
"But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 7:22
"He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;"
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