Ecclesiastes 3:18 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁸ I also said in my heart, “As for the sons of man, God tests them so that they may see that they are but 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 man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks evil like water!

Job 40:8

“Would you really annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

Psalm 49:12

Their inward thought is: Their houses are eternal, their dwellings for generation after generation. They name their lands after themselves.

Psalm 49:14

Such is the way of the self-confident, and their followers who approve their sayings. Selah

Psalm 51:4

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

Psalm 73:22

I was brutish and ignorant. I was like a beast before You.

Romans 3:4

May it never be! Let God be true even if every man is a liar, as it is written, “that You may be righteous in Your words and prevail when You are judged.”

Romans 9:23

And what if He did so to make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory?

Hebrews 9:27

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

1 Peter 1:24

For, “All humanity is like grass, And all its glory like a wildflower. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,

2 Peter 2:12

But these people are like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be captured and killed. They malign what they don’t understand, and in their destruction they will be utterly destroyed.