Ecclesiastes 3:18

New Century Version

I decided that God leaves it the way it is to test people and to show them they are just like animals.

Cross References

Job 15:16

How much less pure is one who is terrible and rotten and drinks up evil as if it were water!

Job 40:8

Would you say that I am unfair? Would you blame me to make yourself look right?

Psalm 49:12

Even rich people do not live forever; like the animals, people die.

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep, they must die, and death will be their shepherd. Honest people will rule over them in the morning, and their bodies will rot in a grave far from home.

Psalm 51:4

You are the only one I have sinned against; I have done what you say is wrong. You are right when you speak and fair when you judge.

Psalm 73:22

I was senseless and stupid. I acted like an animal toward you.

Romans 3:4

No! God will continue to be true even when every person is false. As the Scriptures say: “So you will be shown to be right when you speak, and you will win your case.”

Romans 9:23

He waited with patience so that he could make known his rich glory to the people who receive his mercy. He has prepared these people to have his glory,

Hebrews 9:27

Just as everyone must die once and then be judged,

1 Peter 1:24

The Scripture says, “All people are like the grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass dies and the flowers fall,

2 Peter 2:12

But these people speak against things they do not understand. They are like animals that act without thinking, animals born to be caught and killed. And, like animals, these false teachers will be destroyed.