Ecclesiastes 9:11-14

¹¹I returned, and I sawe vnder the sunne that the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor also riches to men of vnderstanding, neither yet fauour to men of knowledge: but time and chance commeth to them all.

¹²For neither doth man knowe his time, but as the fishes which are taken in an euill net, and as the birdes that are caught in the snare: so are the children of men snared in the euill time when it falleth vpon them suddenly.

¹³I haue also seene this wisedome vnder the sunne, and it is great vnto me.

¹⁴A litle citie and fewe men in it, and a great King came against it, and compassed it about, and builded fortes against it.