Ecclesiastes 9:12 For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an e...

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English Standard Version - For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.
新标点和合本 - 原来人也不知道自己的定期。鱼被恶网圈住，鸟被网罗捉住，祸患忽然临到的时候，世人陷在其中也是如此。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 人不知道自己的定期。鱼被险恶的网圈住，鸟被罗网捉住，祸患的时刻忽然临到，世人陷在其中也是如此。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 人不知道自己的定期。鱼被险恶的网圈住，鸟被罗网捉住，祸患的时刻忽然临到，世人陷在其中也是如此。
当代译本 - 再者，人无法知道何时大难临头。祸患突然临到时，人根本无法摆脱，就像鱼落入险恶的网中，又像鸟儿陷入网罗。
圣经新译本 - 原来人并不知道自己的时机，正像鱼被恶网圈住，鸟被网罗捉住，险恶的时机忽然临到世人身上的时候，世人也照样陷在其中。
中文标准译本 - 原来人并不知道自己的定时：鱼怎样被恶网抓住，鸟怎样被网罗捉住，当祸患突然来临的时候，世人也照样陷在其中。
现代标点和合本 - 原来人也不知道自己的定期：鱼被恶网圈住，鸟被网罗捉住，祸患忽然临到的时候，世人陷在其中，也是如此。
和合本（拼音版） - 原来人也不知道自己的定期；鱼被恶网圈住，鸟被网罗捉住，祸患忽然临到的时候，世人陷在其中，也是如此。
New International Version - Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.
New International Reader's Version - No one knows when trouble will come to them. Fish are caught in nets. Birds are taken in traps. And people are trapped by hard times that come when they don’t expect them.
New Living Translation - People can never predict when hard times might come. Like fish in a net or birds in a trap, people are caught by sudden tragedy.
The Message - No one can predict misfortune. Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds in a trap, So men and women are caught By accidents evil and sudden.
Christian Standard Bible - For certainly no one knows his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.
New American Standard Bible - For indeed, a person does not know his time: like fish that are caught in a treacherous net and birds caught in a snare, so the sons of mankind are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.
New King James Version - For man also does not know his time: Like fish taken in a cruel net, Like birds caught in a snare, So the sons of men are snared in an evil time, When it falls suddenly upon them.
Amplified Bible - For man also does not know his time [of death]; like fish caught in a treacherous net, and birds caught in the snare, so the sons of men are ensnared in an evil time when a dark cloud suddenly falls on them.
American 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, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
King James 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.
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.
World English Bible - 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.
新標點和合本 - 原來人也不知道自己的定期。魚被惡網圈住，鳥被網羅捉住，禍患忽然臨到的時候，世人陷在其中也是如此。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 人不知道自己的定期。魚被險惡的網圈住，鳥被羅網捉住，禍患的時刻忽然臨到，世人陷在其中也是如此。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 人不知道自己的定期。魚被險惡的網圈住，鳥被羅網捉住，禍患的時刻忽然臨到，世人陷在其中也是如此。
當代譯本 - 再者，人無法知道何時大難臨頭。禍患突然臨到時，人根本無法擺脫，就像魚落入險惡的網中，又像鳥兒陷入網羅。
聖經新譯本 - 原來人並不知道自己的時機，正像魚被惡網圈住，鳥被網羅捉住，險惡的時機忽然臨到世人身上的時候，世人也照樣陷在其中。
呂振中譯本 - 因為人類並不知道他自己的定時：魚怎樣被捉住於致禍的網裏，鳥怎樣被捉住於機檻中，人類當禍患時、災禍忽然降到他們身上時、人也怎樣被羅住。
中文標準譯本 - 原來人並不知道自己的定時：魚怎樣被惡網抓住，鳥怎樣被網羅捉住，當禍患突然來臨的時候，世人也照樣陷在其中。
現代標點和合本 - 原來人也不知道自己的定期：魚被惡網圈住，鳥被網羅捉住，禍患忽然臨到的時候，世人陷在其中，也是如此。
文理和合譯本 - 人不自知其時、魚入於網、鳥罹於羅、患難猝臨之日、世人陷於其中、亦若是也、○
文理委辦譯本 - 譬彼水族羽族、猝罹網羅、人遘飛殃、出於莫測者亦若是。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 時勢或作終局如何、人不得知、如魚之入網、網原文作惡網如鳥之入羅、禍患忽臨於人、而人陷其中亦若是、○
Nueva Versión Internacional - Vi además que nadie sabe cuándo le llegará su hora. Así como los peces caen en la red maligna y las aves caen en la trampa, también los hombres se ven atrapados por una desgracia que de pronto les sobreviene.
현대인의 성경 - 사람은 언제 불행한 일을 당할지 그 때를 알지 못한다. 물고기가 그물에 걸리고 새가 덫에 걸리듯이 사람도 갑자기 재앙이 밀어닥치면 거기에 걸리고 만다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Человек не знает когда придет его час: как рыбы попадаются в губительную сеть, или птицы – в силки, так и люди бывают пойманы в день несчастья, который приходит к ним нежданно.
Восточный перевод - Человек не знает, когда придёт его час: как рыбы попадаются в губительную сеть, или птицы – в силки, так и люди бывают пойманы в день несчастья, который приходит к ним нежданно.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Человек не знает, когда придёт его час: как рыбы попадаются в губительную сеть, или птицы – в силки, так и люди бывают пойманы в день несчастья, который приходит к ним нежданно.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Человек не знает, когда придёт его час: как рыбы попадаются в губительную сеть, или птицы – в силки, так и люди бывают пойманы в день несчастья, который приходит к ним нежданно.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - En effet, l’homme ne sait pas ce qui l’attend, il est pareil aux poissons qui sont pris dans des filets pour leur malheur, il ressemble aux oiseaux pris au piège : les humains sont surpris par le malheur, qui fond sur eux à l’improviste.
リビングバイブル - いつ運の悪さに見舞われるかを知っている人はいません。人はみな、網にかかった魚、罠にかかった鳥のようです。
Nova Versão Internacional - Além do mais, ninguém sabe quando virá a sua hora: Assim como os peixes são apanhados numa rede fatal e os pássaros são pegos numa armadilha, também os homens são enredados pelos tempos de desgraça que caem inesperadamente sobre eles.
Hoffnung für alle - Kein Mensch weiß, wann seine Zeit gekommen ist. Wie Fische sich plötzlich im Netz verfangen, wie Vögel in die Falle geraten, so enden auch die Menschen: Der Tod ereilt sie, wenn sie es am wenigsten erwarten.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Loài người không thể biết lúc nào tai họa đến. Như cá mắc lưới hay như chim mắc bẫy, loài người cũng bị tai họa thình lình.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ยิ่งกว่านั้น ไม่มีใครรู้ว่าเมื่อไรจะถึงคราวของตน เหมือนปลาติดร่างแหอันโหดร้าย และนกติดกับฉันใด คนก็ติดกับของคราวร้าย ซึ่งโถมเข้าใส่เขาโดยไม่นึกไม่ฝันฉันนั้น
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ด้วยว่า มนุษย์ไม่รู้ถึงเวลาของตัวเขาเอง ปลาถูกจับในตาข่าย และนกถูกกับดักเช่นไร บรรดาบุตรของมนุษย์ก็ติดกับดักเมื่อเป็นเวลาอันเลวร้าย ซึ่งเกิดขึ้นกับเขาอย่างฉับพลันฉันนั้น

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Luke 12:39 - But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.
Luke 12:20 - But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
Isaiah 30:13 - therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;
Psalms 73:18 - Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.
Psalms 73:19 - How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
Psalms 73:20 - Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
Job 18:8 - For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.
Job 18:9 - A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him.
Job 18:10 - A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
2 Timothy 2:26 - and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
Psalms 11:6 - Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Luke 19:42 - saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
Luke 19:43 - For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side
Luke 19:44 - and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
Proverbs 7:22 - All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast
Proverbs 7:23 - till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.
Luke 17:26 - Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.
Luke 17:27 - They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:28 - Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
Luke 17:29 - but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—
Luke 17:30 - so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
Luke 17:31 - On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back.
1 Peter 2:12 - Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
2 Peter 2:12 - But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,
2 Corinthians 6:2 - For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
Ecclesiastes 8:11 - Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
Habakkuk 1:14 - You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.
Habakkuk 1:15 - He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad.
Habakkuk 1:16 - Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his dragnet; for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich.
Habakkuk 1:17 - Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?
Proverbs 6:15 - therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
Ecclesiastes 8:5 - Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way.
Ecclesiastes 8:6 - For there is a time and a way for everything, although man’s trouble lies heavy on him.
Ecclesiastes 8:7 - For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?
Luke 21:34 - “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.
Luke 21:35 - For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Luke 21:36 - But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
1 Thessalonians 5:3 - While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
Proverbs 29:6 - An evil man is ensnared in his transgression, but a righteous man sings and rejoices.

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English Standard Version - For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.
新标点和合本 - 原来人也不知道自己的定期。鱼被恶网圈住，鸟被网罗捉住，祸患忽然临到的时候，世人陷在其中也是如此。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 人不知道自己的定期。鱼被险恶的网圈住，鸟被罗网捉住，祸患的时刻忽然临到，世人陷在其中也是如此。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 人不知道自己的定期。鱼被险恶的网圈住，鸟被罗网捉住，祸患的时刻忽然临到，世人陷在其中也是如此。
当代译本 - 再者，人无法知道何时大难临头。祸患突然临到时，人根本无法摆脱，就像鱼落入险恶的网中，又像鸟儿陷入网罗。
圣经新译本 - 原来人并不知道自己的时机，正像鱼被恶网圈住，鸟被网罗捉住，险恶的时机忽然临到世人身上的时候，世人也照样陷在其中。
中文标准译本 - 原来人并不知道自己的定时：鱼怎样被恶网抓住，鸟怎样被网罗捉住，当祸患突然来临的时候，世人也照样陷在其中。
现代标点和合本 - 原来人也不知道自己的定期：鱼被恶网圈住，鸟被网罗捉住，祸患忽然临到的时候，世人陷在其中，也是如此。
和合本（拼音版） - 原来人也不知道自己的定期；鱼被恶网圈住，鸟被网罗捉住，祸患忽然临到的时候，世人陷在其中，也是如此。
New International Version - Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.
New International Reader's Version - No one knows when trouble will come to them. Fish are caught in nets. Birds are taken in traps. And people are trapped by hard times that come when they don’t expect them.
New Living Translation - People can never predict when hard times might come. Like fish in a net or birds in a trap, people are caught by sudden tragedy.
The Message - No one can predict misfortune. Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds in a trap, So men and women are caught By accidents evil and sudden.
Christian Standard Bible - For certainly no one knows his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.
New American Standard Bible - For indeed, a person does not know his time: like fish that are caught in a treacherous net and birds caught in a snare, so the sons of mankind are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.
New King James Version - For man also does not know his time: Like fish taken in a cruel net, Like birds caught in a snare, So the sons of men are snared in an evil time, When it falls suddenly upon them.
Amplified Bible - For man also does not know his time [of death]; like fish caught in a treacherous net, and birds caught in the snare, so the sons of men are ensnared in an evil time when a dark cloud suddenly falls on them.
American 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, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
King James 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.
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.
World English Bible - 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.
新標點和合本 - 原來人也不知道自己的定期。魚被惡網圈住，鳥被網羅捉住，禍患忽然臨到的時候，世人陷在其中也是如此。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 人不知道自己的定期。魚被險惡的網圈住，鳥被羅網捉住，禍患的時刻忽然臨到，世人陷在其中也是如此。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 人不知道自己的定期。魚被險惡的網圈住，鳥被羅網捉住，禍患的時刻忽然臨到，世人陷在其中也是如此。
當代譯本 - 再者，人無法知道何時大難臨頭。禍患突然臨到時，人根本無法擺脫，就像魚落入險惡的網中，又像鳥兒陷入網羅。
聖經新譯本 - 原來人並不知道自己的時機，正像魚被惡網圈住，鳥被網羅捉住，險惡的時機忽然臨到世人身上的時候，世人也照樣陷在其中。
呂振中譯本 - 因為人類並不知道他自己的定時：魚怎樣被捉住於致禍的網裏，鳥怎樣被捉住於機檻中，人類當禍患時、災禍忽然降到他們身上時、人也怎樣被羅住。
中文標準譯本 - 原來人並不知道自己的定時：魚怎樣被惡網抓住，鳥怎樣被網羅捉住，當禍患突然來臨的時候，世人也照樣陷在其中。
現代標點和合本 - 原來人也不知道自己的定期：魚被惡網圈住，鳥被網羅捉住，禍患忽然臨到的時候，世人陷在其中，也是如此。
文理和合譯本 - 人不自知其時、魚入於網、鳥罹於羅、患難猝臨之日、世人陷於其中、亦若是也、○
文理委辦譯本 - 譬彼水族羽族、猝罹網羅、人遘飛殃、出於莫測者亦若是。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 時勢或作終局如何、人不得知、如魚之入網、網原文作惡網如鳥之入羅、禍患忽臨於人、而人陷其中亦若是、○
Nueva Versión Internacional - Vi además que nadie sabe cuándo le llegará su hora. Así como los peces caen en la red maligna y las aves caen en la trampa, también los hombres se ven atrapados por una desgracia que de pronto les sobreviene.
현대인의 성경 - 사람은 언제 불행한 일을 당할지 그 때를 알지 못한다. 물고기가 그물에 걸리고 새가 덫에 걸리듯이 사람도 갑자기 재앙이 밀어닥치면 거기에 걸리고 만다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Человек не знает когда придет его час: как рыбы попадаются в губительную сеть, или птицы – в силки, так и люди бывают пойманы в день несчастья, который приходит к ним нежданно.
Восточный перевод - Человек не знает, когда придёт его час: как рыбы попадаются в губительную сеть, или птицы – в силки, так и люди бывают пойманы в день несчастья, который приходит к ним нежданно.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Человек не знает, когда придёт его час: как рыбы попадаются в губительную сеть, или птицы – в силки, так и люди бывают пойманы в день несчастья, который приходит к ним нежданно.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Человек не знает, когда придёт его час: как рыбы попадаются в губительную сеть, или птицы – в силки, так и люди бывают пойманы в день несчастья, который приходит к ним нежданно.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - En effet, l’homme ne sait pas ce qui l’attend, il est pareil aux poissons qui sont pris dans des filets pour leur malheur, il ressemble aux oiseaux pris au piège : les humains sont surpris par le malheur, qui fond sur eux à l’improviste.
リビングバイブル - いつ運の悪さに見舞われるかを知っている人はいません。人はみな、網にかかった魚、罠にかかった鳥のようです。
Nova Versão Internacional - Além do mais, ninguém sabe quando virá a sua hora: Assim como os peixes são apanhados numa rede fatal e os pássaros são pegos numa armadilha, também os homens são enredados pelos tempos de desgraça que caem inesperadamente sobre eles.
Hoffnung für alle - Kein Mensch weiß, wann seine Zeit gekommen ist. Wie Fische sich plötzlich im Netz verfangen, wie Vögel in die Falle geraten, so enden auch die Menschen: Der Tod ereilt sie, wenn sie es am wenigsten erwarten.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Loài người không thể biết lúc nào tai họa đến. Như cá mắc lưới hay như chim mắc bẫy, loài người cũng bị tai họa thình lình.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ยิ่งกว่านั้น ไม่มีใครรู้ว่าเมื่อไรจะถึงคราวของตน เหมือนปลาติดร่างแหอันโหดร้าย และนกติดกับฉันใด คนก็ติดกับของคราวร้าย ซึ่งโถมเข้าใส่เขาโดยไม่นึกไม่ฝันฉันนั้น
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ด้วยว่า มนุษย์ไม่รู้ถึงเวลาของตัวเขาเอง ปลาถูกจับในตาข่าย และนกถูกกับดักเช่นไร บรรดาบุตรของมนุษย์ก็ติดกับดักเมื่อเป็นเวลาอันเลวร้าย ซึ่งเกิดขึ้นกับเขาอย่างฉับพลันฉันนั้น

Luke 12:39 - But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.
Luke 12:20 - But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
Isaiah 30:13 - therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;
Psalms 73:18 - Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.
Psalms 73:19 - How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
Psalms 73:20 - Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
Job 18:8 - For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.
Job 18:9 - A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him.
Job 18:10 - A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
2 Timothy 2:26 - and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
Psalms 11:6 - Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Luke 19:42 - saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
Luke 19:43 - For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side
Luke 19:44 - and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
Proverbs 7:22 - All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast
Proverbs 7:23 - till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.
Luke 17:26 - Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.
Luke 17:27 - They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:28 - Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
Luke 17:29 - but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—
Luke 17:30 - so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
Luke 17:31 - On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back.
1 Peter 2:12 - Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
2 Peter 2:12 - But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,
2 Corinthians 6:2 - For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
Ecclesiastes 8:11 - Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
Habakkuk 1:14 - You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.
Habakkuk 1:15 - He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad.
Habakkuk 1:16 - Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his dragnet; for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich.
Habakkuk 1:17 - Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?
Proverbs 6:15 - therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
Ecclesiastes 8:5 - Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way.
Ecclesiastes 8:6 - For there is a time and a way for everything, although man’s trouble lies heavy on him.
Ecclesiastes 8:7 - For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?
Luke 21:34 - “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.
Luke 21:35 - For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Luke 21:36 - But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
1 Thessalonians 5:3 - While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
Proverbs 29:6 - An evil man is ensnared in his transgression, but a righteous man sings and rejoices.