Ecclesiastes 3:18

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

I said in my heart with regard to human beings that God is testing them to show that they are but animals.

Cross References

Job 15:16

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!

Job 40:8

Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?

Psalm 49:12

Mortals cannot abide in their pomp; they are like the animals that perish.

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; straight to the grave they descend, and their form shall waste away; Sheol shall be their home.

Psalm 51:4

Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment.

Psalm 73:22

I was stupid and ignorant; I was like a brute beast toward you.

Romans 3:4

By no means! Although everyone is a liar, let God be proved true, as it is written, “So that you may be justified in your words, and prevail in your judging.”

Romans 9:23

and what if he has done so in order to make known the riches of his glory for the objects of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and after that the judgment,

1 Peter 1:24

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

2 Peter 2:12

These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and when those creatures are destroyed, they also will be destroyed,