Ecclesiastes 3:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves `are' beasts.

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  • Ps 73:22 : 22 And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.
  • Gen 3:17-19 : 17 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, 18 and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field; 19 by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou `art', and unto dust thou turnest back.'
  • Job 14:1-4 : 1 Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble! 2 As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not. 3 Also -- on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring me into judgment with Thee. 4 Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
  • Job 15:16 : 16 Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?
  • Ps 49:12 : 12 And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off.
  • Ps 49:14 : 14 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.
  • Ps 49:19-20 : 19 It cometh to the generation of his fathers, For ever they see not the light. 20 Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off!
  • Ps 51:4 : 4 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.
  • Ps 73:18-19 : 18 Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations. 19 How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.
  • Ps 90:5-9 : 5 Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered. 7 For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face, 9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation. 10 Days of our years, in them `are' seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet `is' their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away. 11 Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear -- Thy wrath? 12 To number our days aright let `us' know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
  • Rom 3:4 : 4 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.'
  • Rom 9:23 : 23 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 --
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 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,
  • 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 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,

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    19For an event `is to' the sons of man, and an event `is to' the beasts, even one event `is' to them; as the death of this, so `is' the death of that; and one spirit `is' to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole `is' vanity.

    20The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.

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    2Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole `is' vanity.

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