Ecc 9:12 | ESV | STEP | 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.

c[Prov. 29:6; Ezek. 12:13; Hos. 7:12; Luke 21:34, 35; 1 Thess. 5:3]

Ecclesiastes 9:12

12 For man ^adoes not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and ^blike birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are ^csnared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.