Ecclesiastes 3:18

New English Translation

I also thought to myself, “It is for the sake of people, so God can clearly show them that they are like animals.

Cross References

Job 15:16

how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!

Job 40:8

Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

Psalm 49:12

but, despite their wealth, people do not last, they are like animals that perish.

Psalm 49:14

They will travel to Sheol like sheep, with death as their shepherd. The godly will rule over them when the day of vindication dawns; Sheol will consume their bodies and they will no longer live in impressive houses.

Psalm 51:4

Against you – you above all – I have sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. So you are just when you confront me; you are right when you condemn me.

Psalm 73:22

I was ignorant and lacked insight; I was as senseless as an animal before you.

Romans 3:4

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: “so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged.”

Romans 9:23

And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory –

Hebrews 9:27

And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,

1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

2 Peter 2:12

But these men, like irrational animals – creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed – do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,