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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Matthew 25 13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Jeremiah 5 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Matthew 24 44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Matthew 24 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Ezekiel 33 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
Proverbs 27 12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Proverbs 22 3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Proverbs 11 7 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
Proverbs 10 27 The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Deuteronomy 1 39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
Daniel 11 33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
Micah 7 2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Revelation 9 6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Luke 12 40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Isaiah 17 14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Deuteronomy 32 35 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Ecclesiastes 8 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Ecclesiastes 7 17 Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
John 7 6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
Jeremiah 8 7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Hosea 14 9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Ecclesiastes 8 7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
Jeremiah 48 44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
Mark 13 33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
James 4 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Mark 13 35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
Proverbs 28 28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.
Ecclesiastes 3 19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 9 11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Proverbs 29 8 Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
Proverbs 1 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Luke 9 56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.
Revelation 22 10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
Mark 13 32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Proverbs 10 5 He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
Isaiah 47 11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
Ecclesiastes 3 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Job 14 21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
Ecclesiastes 8 5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
Matthew 24 37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Hosea 13 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.
2 Peter 3 17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
Ecclesiastes 12 5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Isaiah 8 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
Acts 17 30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Matthew 24 36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Jeremiah 31 29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Job 24 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Ezra 9 7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
Habakkuk 1 14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?