It applies equally to women. Certainly Joyce Wroczynski, the admired and respected Poca schoolteacher, did not expect such a tragic and brutal end to her life, allegedly at the hands of one who was born and raised in her neighborhood. The above quoted teaching from days of old is a truism up to a point.
Some men actually do know their day of death, including the precise time and place.
Timothy McVeigh is on a scheduled rendezvous with his destiny. His execution is a given and anything short of the Lord's intervention will prove to be powerless to alter the decree. Both the Hebrew and the Christian bibles are rich in confronting the painful and controversial issue of what punishment to mete out to a member of society who perpetuates the most heinous crime against his fellow human beings. The Book of Deuteronomy cautions us that vengeance and recompense belong to God. The entire subject of capital punishment is both distasteful and morally challenging.