Ecclesiastes 3:18
Ecclesiastes chapter 3 · verse 18 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000I said in my heart, It isbecause of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.
KJV
King James Version · 1611I 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901I said in my heart, It isbecause of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.
Context
v.17I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
v.18This passage
v.19For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 14:1
Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
- Romans 9:23
and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,
- Psalms 49:12
But man being in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.
- Romans 3:4
God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.
- Psalms 90:5
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- Psalms 73:18
Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.