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Ecclesiastes 9:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Ecclesiastes 9:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
12 For no one can anticipate the time of disaster. Like fish taken in a cruel net, and like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.
Wisdom Superior to Folly
13 I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me. 14 There was a little city with few people in it. A great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it.
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