Ecclesiastes 3:18

New American Bible - revised edition

I said in my heart: As for human beings, it is God’s way of testing them and of showing that they are in themselves like beasts.

Cross References

Job 15:16

How much less so is the abominable and corrupt: people who drink in iniquity like water!

Job 40:8

Would you refuse to acknowledge my right? Would you condemn me that you may be justified?

Psalm 49:12

Their tombs are their homes forever, their dwellings through all generations, “They named countries after themselves”

Psalm 49:14

This is the way of those who trust in themselves, and the end of those who take pleasure in their own mouth. Selah

Psalm 51:4

Thoroughly wash away my guilt; and from my sin cleanse me.

Psalm 73:22

I was stupid and could not understand; I was like a brute beast in your presence.

Romans 3:4

Of course not! God must be true, though every human being is a liar, as it is written: “That you may be justified in your words, and conquer when you are judged.”

Romans 9:23

This was to make known the riches of his glory to the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared previously for glory,

Hebrews 9:27

Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment,

1 Peter 1:24

for: “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the field; the grass withers, and the flower wilts;

2 Peter 2:12

But these people, like irrational animals born by nature for capture and destruction, revile things that they do not understand, and in their destruction they will also be destroyed,