'Beast' in the Bible
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God,Your judgments are like the great deep.O Lord, You preserve man and beast.
“For every beast of the forest is Mine,And the cattle on a thousand hills.
Then I was senseless and ignorant;I was like a beast before You.
Oh, do not hand over the soul of your turtledove to the wild beast;Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.
A boar from the woods eats it away,And the insects of the field feed on it.
They give drink to every beast of the field;The wild donkeys quench their thirst there.
You [O Lord] make darkness and it becomes night,In which prowls about every wild beast of the forest.
Who struck the firstborn of Egypt,Both of man and animal;
He gives to the beast its food,And to the young ravens that for which they cry.