Ecclesiastes 9:12-14

Jubilee Bible 2000

¹² For man also does not know 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 the evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

¹³ ¶ I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, which is important unto me:

¹⁴ There was a little city and few men within it; and a great king came against it and besieged it and built great bulwarks against it;