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 the man He said, 'Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed is the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,

Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form is for consumption. Sheol is a dwelling for him.

Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,

because all flesh is as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,

That god, etc

Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done the evil thing in Thine eyes, So that Thou art righteous in Thy words, Thou art pure in Thy judging.

let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, 'That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us --

And that

And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed -- in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil -- in their destruction shall be destroyed,