Ecclesiastes 3:18 - 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.

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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

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.

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 is man abominable and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?

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 thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

Psalm 49:14

Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.

Psalm 51:4

All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

Psalm 73:22

Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.

Romans 3:4

But God is true; and every man a liar, as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy words, and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

Romans 9:23

That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared unto glory?

Hebrews 9:27

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:

1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh is as grass; and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered, and the flower thereof is fallen away.

2 Peter 2:12

But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption,