Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
(Ecclesiastes 9:9)Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
(Ecclesiastes 9:10)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.
(Ecclesiastes 9:11)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.
This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
(Ecclesiastes 9:13)There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
(Ecclesiastes 9:14)Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
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And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
(Luke 12:39)(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
(2 Corinthians 6:2)Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
(Psalm 11:6)Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
(Ecclesiastes 8:11)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;
(2 Peter 2:12)For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
(Job 18:8)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?
(Luke 12:20)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.
(Luke 21:34)And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
(Habakkuk 1:14)Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
(Proverbs 6:15)Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
(1 Peter 2:12)He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
(Proverbs 7:22)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.
(1 Thessalonians 5:3)And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
(2 Timothy 2:26)In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
(Proverbs 29:6)Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
(Isaiah 30:13)Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
(Psalm 73:18)Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
(Ecclesiastes 8:5)Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
(Luke 19:42)And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
(Luke 17:26)