Ecclesiastes 3:18

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.

Concerning

That god, etc

And that

Psalm 73:22

2 Peter 2:12

Bible References

Concerning

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

Cursed is the ground because of you;

In toil you will eat of it

All the days of your life.

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

How much less one who is detestable and corrupt,
Man, who drinks iniquity like water!

As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for Sheol to consume

So that they have no habitation.

Surely You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to

destruction.

You have swept them away like a flood, they

fall asleep;

In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

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

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

“Will you really annul My judgment?
Will you condemn Me that you may be justified?

Against You, You only, I have sinned

And done what is evil in Your sight,
So that You are justified when You speak
And blameless when You judge.

May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written,

“That You may be justified in Your words,
And prevail when You

are judged.”

And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,

And that

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

But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,