Ecclesiastes 3:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

I said in mine heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

I said in my heart regarding the subject of the sons of men, God is trying (separating and sifting) them, that they may see that by themselves [under the sun, without God] they are but like beasts.

American Standard Version (1901)

I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.

Common English Bible

I also thought, Where human beings are concerned, God tests them to show them that they are but animals

Catholic Public Domain Version

I said in my heart, about the sons of men, that God would test them, and reveal them to be like wild animals.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.

Ecclesiastes 3:18 Cross References

Job 15:16

How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!

Job 40:8

Wilt thou even disannul my judgement? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?

Psalm 49:12

But man abideth not in honour: He is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm 49:14

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd: And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for it.

Psalm 51:4

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight: That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest.

Psalm 73:22

So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee.

Romans 3:4

God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgement.

Romans 9:23

and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgement;

1 Peter 1:24

For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,