Ecclesiastes 3:18
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.
KJV
Dixi in corde meo de filiis hominum, ut probaret eos Deus, et ostenderet similes esse bestiis.
Vulgate
καὶ εἶπα ἐγὼ ἐν καρδίᾳ μου περὶ λαλιᾶς υἱῶν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, ὅτι διακρινεῖ αὐτοὺς ὁ θεός, καὶ τοῦ δεῖξαι ὅτι αὐτοὶ κτήνη εἰσίν.
LXX
I said in my heart, It isbecause of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.
ASV
אָמַ֤רְתִּֽי אֲנִי֙ בְּ/לִבִּ֔/י עַל דִּבְרַת֙ בְּנֵ֣י הָ/אָדָ֔ם לְ/בָרָ֖/ם הָ/אֱלֹהִ֑ים וְ/לִ/רְא֕וֹת שְׁ/הֶם בְּהֵמָ֥ה הֵ֖מָּה לָ/הֶֽם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Pet 1:24 — For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
- 2Pet 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;
- Gen 3:17 — And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sak
- Heb 9:27 — And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
- Job 11:12 — For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.
- Job 14:1 — Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
- Job 15:16 — How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
- Job 40:8 — Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
- Ps 49:12 — Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
- Ps 49:12 — Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
- Ps 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.
- Ps 49:19 — He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
- Ps 49:20 — Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
- Ps 51:4 — Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
- Ps 73:18 — Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
- Ps 73:22 — So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
- Ps 73:22 — So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
- Ps 90:5 — Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- Rom 3:4 — God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
- Rom 9:23 — And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,