Ecclesiastes 3:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.

Cross References

Job 15:16

How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

Job 40:8

Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

Psalm 49:12

But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

Psalm 49:14

Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

Psalm 51:4

Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

Psalm 73:22

As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

Romans 3:4

In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.

Romans 9:23

And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,

Hebrews 9:27

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

1 Peter 1:24

For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

2 Peter 2:12

But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;