Ecclesiastes 3:18

Modern English Version

Then I thought in my heart, “Regarding the account of people, God is testing them to show that they are but animals.

Cross References

Job 15:16

How much more abhorred and corrupt is man, who drinks iniquity like water!

Job 40:8

“Will you indeed annul My judgment? Will you condemn Me, that you may be righteous?

Psalm 49:12

Nevertheless man cannot remain in his splendor; he is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; the upright shall rule over them in the morning; their form shall waste away in Sheol, far from their dwelling.

Psalm 51:4

Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You are justified when you speak, and blameless when You pass judgment.

Psalm 73:22

I was foolish and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.

Romans 3:4

God forbid! Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words, and may prevail in Your judging.”

Romans 9:23

in order to make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He previously prepared for glory,

Hebrews 9:27

As it is appointed for men to die once, but after this comes the judgment,

1 Peter 1:24

For “All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

2 Peter 2:12

But these people are like irrational animals, born to be captured and destroyed. They speak evil of the things that they do not understand, and in their corruption they will be destroyed.