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Ecclesiastes 9:12-14
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12 Nobody knows the time when trouble may come to them.
    A fish does not know when somebody will catch it in a net.
    A bird does not know when somebody will catch it in a trap.
In the same way, terrible trouble suddenly happens to people when they do not expect it.

Better to be wise than to be a fool

13 I saw something else that happens on the earth. It is a good example of what wisdom is like. 14 There was a small city and only a few people lived in it. A powerful king came to attack that city. His army made their camp around the city. They built heaps of earth all around it.

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