Ecclesiastes 3:18 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁸ I said in my heart, *As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like 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

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:18 Tagairtí Cros

Job 15:16

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

Job 40:8

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

Psalm 49:12

But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

Psalm 49:14

They are appointed as a flock for She'ol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in She'ol, far from their mansion.

Psalm 51:4

Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

Psalm 73:22

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Romans 3:4

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, *That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.*

Romans 9:23

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

Hebrews 9:27

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

1 Peter 1:24

For, *All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,