Ecclesiastes 9:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

For man also knoweth not his time Namely, the time of his death, or of some other sore distress, which God is bringing upon him; as fishes are taken in an evil net While they are sporting and feeding themselves, are suddenly and unexpectedly ensnared to their ruin; so are the sons of men snared When they are most careless and secure.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

12 For man also knoweth not 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 an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.