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Eccl. 3:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that σGod might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beastsf.

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or, they might clear God, and see,

Psa. 51:4• ⁴Against 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. (Psa. 51:4)

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Psa. 49:12,20• ¹²Nevertheless, man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
²⁰Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. (Psa. 49:12,20)

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Psa. 73:22• ²²Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee. (Psa. 73:22)

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concerning.

Gen. 3:17‑19• ¹⁷And 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;
¹⁸and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
¹⁹In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:17‑19)

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Job 14:1‑4• ¹Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
²He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.
³Yet dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
⁴Who can bring a clean man out of the unclean? Not one! (Job 14:1‑4)

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Job 15:16• ¹⁶How much less the abominable and corrupt,--man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water! (Job 15:16)

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Psa. 49:14,19‑20• ¹⁴Like 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.
¹⁹It shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall never see light.
²⁰Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. (Psa. 49:14,19‑20)

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Psa. 73:18‑19• ¹⁸Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
¹⁹How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors. (Psa. 73:18‑19)

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Psa. 90:5‑12• ⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:
⁶In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
⁷For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.
⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
⁹For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought.
¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
¹¹Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?
¹²So teach us to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart. (Psa. 90:5‑12)

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Heb. 9:27• ²⁷And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment; (Heb. 9:27)

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1 Peter 1:24• ²⁴Because all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. The grass has withered and its flower has fallen; (1 Peter 1:24)

that God, etc.

or, that they might clear God, and see, etc.

Job 40:8• ⁸Wilt thou also annul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be righteous? (Job 40:8)

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Psa. 51:4• ⁴Against 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. (Psa. 51:4)

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Rom. 3:4• ⁴Far 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. (Rom. 3:4)

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Rom. 9:23• ²³and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory, (Rom. 9:23)

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Psa. 73:22• ²²Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee. (Psa. 73:22)

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2 Peter 2:12• ¹²But 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, (2 Peter 2:12)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I said in my heart, It is thus with the children of men, that God may prove them, and that they should see that they themselves are but beasts.