Ecclesiastes 3:18 - 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.

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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.

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:18 Tagairtí Cros

Job 15:16

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!

Job 40:8

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

Psalm 49:12

Man in his pomp will not remain; he is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall rule over them in the morning. Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.

Psalm 51:4

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

Psalm 73:22

I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.

Romans 3:4

By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.”

Romans 9:23

in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes 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

But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,