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

And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

How much less the abominable and corrupt, man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!

Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.

Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:

And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment;

Because all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. The grass has withered and its flower has fallen;

That god, etc

Wilt thou also annul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be righteous?

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in thy sight; that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, be clear when thou judgest.

Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,

And that

Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee.

But these, as natural animals without reason, made to be caught and destroyed, speaking injuriously in things they are ignorant of, shall also perish in their own corruption,