Ecclesiastes 3:18 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁸ And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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)

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ I also thought, Where human beings are concerned, God tests them to show them that they are but animals

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ I said in my heart, about the sons of men, that God would test them, and reveal them to be like wild animals.

Ecclesiastes 3:18 Cross References

Job 15:16

1 The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.

Job 40:8

5 Behold behemoth whom I made with thee, he eateth grass like an ox.

Psalm 49:12

9 He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.

Psalm 49:14

A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof:

Psalm 51:4

1 Cast me not away from thy face; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Psalm 73:22

Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture?

Romans 3:4

2 All have turned out of the way; they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.

Romans 9:23

1 But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.

Hebrews 9:27

In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law.

1 Peter 1:24

And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of scandal, to them who stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set.

2 Peter 2:12

1 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of justice, than after they have known it, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them.