Ecclesiastes 3:18 - King James 2000

¹⁸ I said in my heart concerning the condition of the sons of men, that God might reveal them, and that they might see that they themselves are 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.

Ecclesiastes 3:18 Tagairtí Cros

Job 15:16

How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

Job 40:8

Will you also annul my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may be righteous?

Psalm 49:12

Nevertheless man being in honor abides not: he is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

Psalm 51:4

Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak, and be blameless when you judge.

Psalm 73:22

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before you.

Romans 3:4

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.

Romans 9:23

And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared unto glory,

Hebrews 9:27

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

1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away:

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;