Ecclesiastes 9:12-14

Revised Geneva Translation

¹² For man does not know his time. But as the fish which are taken in an evil net, and as the birds are caught in the snare, so are the children of men snared in the evil time when it falls upon them suddenly.

¹³ I have also seen this wisdom under the Sun. And it is great to me.

¹⁴ There was a little city, with few men in it. And a great king came against it and surrounded it and built siege ramps against it.