Ecclesiastes 3:18

I said to myself regarding the sons of men, “God is surely testing them in order for them to see that [by themselves, without God] they are [only] animals.”

Psalm 73:22


Then I was senseless and ignorant;
I was like a beast before You.

Genesis 3:17-19

Then to Adam the Lord God said, “Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’;

The ground is [now] under a curse because of you;
In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it
All the days of your life.

Job 14:1-4

“Man, who is born of a woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.

Job 15:16


How much less [pure and clean is] the one who is repulsive and corrupt,
Man, who drinks unrighteousness and injustice like water!

Job 40:8


“Will you really annul My judgment and set it aside as void?
Will you condemn Me [your God] that you may [appear to] be righteous and justified?

Psalm 49:12


But man, with all his [self] honor and pomp, will not endure;
He is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm 49:14


Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead);
Death will be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form and beauty shall be for Sheol to consume,
So that they have no dwelling [on earth].

Psalm 49:19-20


He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They shall never again see the light.

Psalm 51:4


Against You, You only, have I sinned
And done that which is evil in Your sight,
So that You are justified when You speak [Your sentence]
And faultless in Your judgment.

Psalm 73:18-19


Surely You set the wicked-minded and immoral on slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.

Psalm 90:5-12


You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—

Romans 3:4

Certainly not! Let God be found true [as He will be], though every person be found a liar, just as it is written [in Scripture],

That You may be justified in Your words,
And prevail when You are judged [by sinful men].”

Romans 9:23

And what if He has done so to make known the riches of His glory to the objects of His mercy, which He has prepared beforehand for glory,

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed and destined for all men to die once and after this [comes certain] judgment,

1 Peter 1:24

For,All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers
And the flower falls off,

2 Peter 2:12

But these [false teachers], like unreasoning animals, [mere] creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed, reviling things they do not understand, will also perish in their own corruption [in their destroying they will be destroyed],

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

Concerning

Genesis 3:17
Then to Adam the Lord God said, “Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’;

The ground is [now] under a curse because of you;
In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it
All the days of your life.
Job 14:1
“Man, who is born of a woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.
Job 15:16

How much less [pure and clean is] the one who is repulsive and corrupt,
Man, who drinks unrighteousness and injustice like water!
Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead);
Death will be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form and beauty shall be for Sheol to consume,
So that they have no dwelling [on earth].
Psalm 73:18

Surely You set the wicked-minded and immoral on slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
Psalm 90:5

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—
Hebrews 9:27
And just as it is appointed and destined for all men to die once and after this [comes certain] judgment,
1 Peter 1:24
For,All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers
And the flower falls off,

That god, etc

Job 40:8

“Will you really annul My judgment and set it aside as void?
Will you condemn Me [your God] that you may [appear to] be righteous and justified?
Psalm 51:4

Against You, You only, have I sinned
And done that which is evil in Your sight,
So that You are justified when You speak [Your sentence]
And faultless in Your judgment.
Romans 3:4
Certainly not! Let God be found true [as He will be], though every person be found a liar, just as it is written [in Scripture],

That You may be justified in Your words,
And prevail when You are judged [by sinful men].”
Romans 9:23
And what if He has done so to make known the riches of His glory to the objects of His mercy, which He has prepared beforehand for glory,

And that

Psalm 73:22

Then I was senseless and ignorant;
I was like a beast before You.
2 Peter 2:12
But these [false teachers], like unreasoning animals, [mere] creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed, reviling things they do not understand, will also perish in their own corruption [in their destroying they will be destroyed],