John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 9:12

Verſ. 12. For man alſo knoweth not his time] His end, ſay the Septuagint and Vulgar: What may befall him in after time, ſay others.

Flebile principium melior fortuna ſequatur, Accidit in puncto quod non ſperatur in anno.

So are the Sons of men ſnared in an evil time] This is the reddition of the former propoſition. As the fiſhes are taken, &c. So are graceleſſe men ſnared, &c. Security uſhers in their calamity: when they ſay peace and ſafety, then ſudden deſtruction breaks in upon them, as travel upon a woman with child, and they ſhall not eſcape.1 Theſ. 5.3 God made fair weather before Pharaoh till hee was in the heart of the red ſea. The old World, Sodom, Amnon, Belſhazzar, Herod, the rich Fool, were all ſuddenly ſurprized in the ruff of their jolity. Jeruſalem had three years of extraordinary great plenty,Joſeph. before her laſt utter deſtruction. Philoſophers tell us, that before a Snow the weather will bee warmiſh; when the wind lyes, the great rain falls, and the air is moſt quiet, when ſuddenly there will be an Earth-quake.