Ecclesiastes 3:18

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Ecclesiastes 3:18

I said to myself, “This happens concerning people, so that God may test them and they may see for themselves that they are like animals.”

Psalm 73:22

I was stupid and didn’t understand;
I was an unthinking animal toward You.

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.

Job 14:1-4

Man born of woman
is short of days and full of trouble.

Job 15:16

how much less one who is revolting and corrupt,
who drinks injustice like water?

Job 40:8

Would you really challenge My justice?
Would you declare Me guilty to justify yourself?

Psalm 49:12

But despite his assets, man will not last;
he is like the animals that perish.

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are headed for Sheol;
Death will shepherd them.
The upright will rule over them in the morning,
and their form will waste away in Sheol,
far from their lofty abode.

Psalm 49:19-20

he will go to the generation of his fathers;
they will never see the light.

Psalm 51:4

Against You—You alone—I have sinned
and done this evil in Your sight.
So You are right when You pass sentence;
You are blameless when You judge.

Psalm 73:18-19

Indeed, You put them in slippery places;
You make them fall into ruin.

Psalm 90:5-12

You end their lives; they sleep.
They are like grass that grows in the morning—

Romans 3:4

Absolutely not! God must be true, even if everyone is a liar, as it is written:

That You may be justified in Your words
and triumph when You judge.

Romans 9:23

And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory—

Hebrews 9:27

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

1 Peter 1:24

For

All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory like a flower of the grass.
The grass withers, and the flower falls,

2 Peter 2:12

But these people, like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed—speak blasphemies about things they don’t understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed,

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Summary

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.

Concerning

That god, etc

And that

Psalm 73:22

2 Peter 2:12

Bible References

Concerning

Man born of woman
is short of days and full of trouble.

how much less one who is revolting and corrupt,
who drinks injustice like water?

Like sheep they are headed for Sheol;
Death will shepherd them.
The upright will rule over them in the morning,
and their form will waste away in Sheol,
far from their lofty abode.

Indeed, You put them in slippery places;
You make them fall into ruin.

You end their lives; they sleep.
They are like grass that grows in the morning—

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

For

All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory

like a flower of the grass.

The grass withers, and the flower falls,

That god, etc

Would you really challenge My justice?
Would you declare Me guilty to justify yourself?

Against You—You alone—I have sinned
and done this evil in Your sight.
So You are right when You pass sentence;
You are blameless when You judge.

Absolutely not! God must be true, even if everyone is a liar, as it is written:

That You may be justified in Your words
and triumph when You judge.

And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory—

And that

I was stupid and didn’t understand;
I was an unthinking animal toward You.