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12 Moreover, no man knows his time:
like fish caught in a fatal net
    or birds caught in a snare,
so people are trapped in a time of calamity,
    that falls upon them suddenly.

13 I also observed this as wisdom under the sun, and it greatly impressed me. 14 There was a little city with a few people in it and a mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built great siege works against it.

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