Ecclesiastes 9:12-14

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹² For man also knows not his time [of death]: as the fishes are taken in an evil net, and as the birds are caught in the snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when [calamity] falls suddenly upon them.

¹³ This [illustration of] wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me:

¹⁴ There was a little city with few men in it. And a great king came against it and besieged it and built great bulwarks against it.