Ecclesiastes 9:12 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 9:12

12: People can never predict when hard times might come. Like fish in a net or birds in a snare, people are often caught by sudden tragedy.

Proverbs 29:6

  1. Evil people are trapped by sin, but the righteous escape, shouting for joy.

Ecclesiastes 8:5

  1. Those who obey him will not be punished. Those who are wise will find a time and a way to do what is right.
  2. Yes, there is a time and a way for everything, even as people's troubles lie heavily upon them.
  3. Indeed, how can people avoid what they don't know is going to happen?

1 Thessalonians 5:3

  1. When people are saying, "All is well; everything is peaceful and secure," then disaster will fall upon them as suddenly as a woman's birth pains begin when her child is about to be born. And there will be no escape.

Luke 21:34

  1. "Watch out! Don't let me find you living in careless ease and drunkenness, and filled with the worries of this life. Don't let that day catch you unaware,
  2. as in a trap. For that day will come upon everyone living on the earth.
  3. Keep a constant watch. And pray that, if possible, you may escape these horrors and stand before the Son of Man."

Job 18:8

  1. "The wicked walk into a net. They fall into a pit that's been dug in the path.
  2. A trap grabs them by the heel. A noose tightens around them.
  3. A snare lies hidden in the ground. A rope lies coiled on their path.

Proverbs 7:22

  1. He followed her at once, like an ox going to the slaughter or like a trapped stag,
  2. awaiting the arrow that would pierce its heart. He was like a bird flying into a snare, little knowing it would cost him his life.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

  1. When a crime is not punished, people feel it is safe to do wrong.

2 Peter 2:12

  1. These false teachers are like unthinking animals, creatures of instinct, who are born to be caught and killed. They laugh at the terrifying powers they know so little about, and they will be destroyed along with them.

1 Peter 2:12

  1. Be careful how you live among your unbelieving neighbors. Even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your honorable behavior, and they will believe and give honor to God when he comes to judge the world.

Psalms 73:18

  1. Truly, you put them on a slippery path and send them sliding over the cliff to destruction.
  2. In an instant they are destroyed, swept away by terrors.
  3. Their present life is only a dream that is gone when they awake. When you arise, O Lord, you will make them vanish from this life.

Isaiah 30:13

  1. calamity will come upon you suddenly. It will be like a bulging wall that bursts and falls. In an instant it will collapse and come crashing down.

Proverbs 6:15

  1. But they will be destroyed suddenly, broken beyond all hope of healing.

Luke 19:42

  1. "I wish that even today you would find the way of peace. But now it is too late, and peace is hidden from you.
  2. Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you.
  3. They will crush you to the ground, and your children with you. Your enemies will not leave a single stone in place, because you have rejected the opportunity God offered you."

Luke 12:39

  1. "Know this: A homeowner who knew exactly when a burglar was coming would not permit the house to be broken into.

Psalms 11:6

  1. He rains down blazing coals on the wicked, punishing them with burning sulfur and scorching winds.

2 Corinthians 6:2

  1. For God says, "At just the right time, I heard you. On the day of salvation, I helped you." Indeed, God is ready to help you right now. Today is the day of salvation.

Luke 12:20

  1. "But God said to him, 'You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get it all?'

2 Timothy 2:26

  1. Then they will come to their senses and escape from the Devil's trap. For they have been held captive by him to do whatever he wants.

Habakkuk 1:14

  1. Are we but fish to be caught and killed? Are we but creeping things that have no leader to defend them from their enemies?
  2. Must we be strung up on their hooks and dragged out in their nets while they rejoice?
  3. Then they will worship their nets and burn incense in front of them. "These nets are the gods who have made us rich!" they will claim.
  4. Will you let them get away with this forever? Will they succeed forever in their heartless conquests?

Luke 17:26

  1. "When the Son of Man returns, the world will be like the people were in Noah's day.
  2. In those days before the flood, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came to destroy them all.
  3. "And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business--eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building--
  4. until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
  5. Yes, it will be 'business as usual' right up to the hour when the Son of Man returns.
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