Ecclesiastes 3:18 - Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ I said in my heart, about the sons of men, that God would test them, and reveal them to be like wild animals.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ I said in my heart regarding the subject of the sons of men, God is trying (separating and sifting) them, that they may see that by themselves [under the sun, without God] they are but like beasts.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ I also thought, Where human beings are concerned, God tests them to show them that they are but animals

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁸ I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.

Ecclesiastes 3:18 Tagairtí Cros

Job 15:16

How much more abominable and useless is the man who drinks as if from the water of iniquity?

Job 40:8

Hide them in the dust together and plunge their faces into the pit.

Psalm 49:12

If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.

Psalm 49:14

Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.

Psalm 51:4

All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.

Psalm 73:22

Rise up, O God, judge your own case. Call to mind the accusations against you, which are made by the foolish all day long.

Romans 3:4

For God is truthful, but every man is deceitful; just as it was written: "Therefore, you are justified in your words, and you will prevail when you give judgment."

Romans 9:23

so that he might reveal the wealth of his glory, within these vessels of mercy, which he has prepared unto glory?

Hebrews 9:27

And in the same manner as it has been appointed for men to die one time, and after this, to be judged,

1 Peter 1:24

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

2 Peter 2:12

Yet truly, these others, like irrational beasts, naturally fall into traps and into ruin by blaspheming whatever they do not understand, and so they shall perish in their corruption,