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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,{HR}And have done the evil in thy sight (eyes);{HR}That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest,{HR}[And be] clear when thou judgest. (Psa. 51:4)

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Psa. 49:12,20• ¹²But man in honour abideth not;{HR}He hath become like the cattle,{HR}They have been cut off.
²⁰Man in honour and that understandeth not hath become like the cattle;{HR}That are cut off. (Psa. 49:12,20)

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Psa. 73:22• ²²And I [was] brutish and knew nothing:{HR}A beast I was with thee. (Psa. 73:22)

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Gen. 3:17‑19• ¹⁷And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto thy wife's voice, and hast eaten of the tree [of] which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed [be] the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all thy life's days;
¹⁸and thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat herbage of the field;
¹⁹in sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken. For dust [art] thou, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:17‑19)

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Job 14:1‑4• ¹Man, born of woman,{HR}Is of few days, and full of trouble,
²Cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down,{HR}And he fleeth as a shadow, and abideth not,
³And on such an one thou openest thine eyes!{HR}And me dost thou bring into judgment with thee?
⁴Who giveth a clean out of an unclean thing? Not one! (Job 14:1‑4)

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Job 15:16• ¹⁶How much less the abominable and corrupt,{HR}Man, that drinketh iniquity like water. (Job 15:16)

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Psa. 49:14,19‑20• ¹⁴Like sheep they are laid in Sheol;{HR}Death feedeth on them,{HR}And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;{HR}But their form consumeth in the grave,{HR}From their dwelling [consigned] to it.
¹⁹It shall go to the generation of his fathers;{HR}They shall never see light.
²⁰Man in honour and that understandeth not hath become like the cattle;{HR}That are cut off. (Psa. 49:14,19‑20)

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Psa. 73:18‑19• ¹⁸Truly thou settest them in slippery places,{HR}Thou hast caused them to fall into ruins.
¹⁹How are they a desolation in a moment!{HR}They have passed, consumed with terrors. (Psa. 73:18‑19)

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Psa. 90:5‑12• ⁵Thou sweepest them away— asleep are they;{HR}In the morning as grass changeth;
⁶In the morning it flourisheth and changeth;{HR}At the evening it is mown and withereth.
⁷For we decay in thine anger,{HR}And in thy wrath are we confounded.
⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,{HR}Our secret [sins] in the light of thy face.
⁹For all our days are turned away in thy wrath:{HR}We spend our years as a thought.
¹⁰The days of our years! in them [are] seventy years,{HR}And if by strength eighty years,{HR}Even their pride [is] trouble and mischief;{HR}For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
¹¹Who knoweth the power of thine anger,{HR}And, as thy fear, thy wrath?
¹²To number our days thus make [us] know,{HR}And we will get us a heart of wisdom. (Psa. 90:5‑12)

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Heb. 9:27• ²⁷And forasmuch as it is appointed to 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 a flower of grass. The grass withered and the flower fell away, (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?{HR}Wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be justified? (Job 40:8)

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Psa. 51:4• ⁴Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,{HR}And have done the evil in thy sight (eyes);{HR}That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest,{HR}[And be] clear when thou judgest. (Psa. 51:4)

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Rom. 3:4• ⁴Let it not be, but let God be true and every man false, even as it is written, “That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and overcome when thou art judged.” (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 before prepared for glory— (Rom. 9:23)

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Psa. 73:22• ²²And I [was] brutish and knew nothing:{HR}A beast I was with thee. (Psa. 73:22)

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2 Peter 2:12• ¹²But these, as irrational animals born by nature for capture and destruction, speaking evil in what things they are ignorant, shall also perish in their 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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I said in mine heart,{HR}It is because of the sons of men that God may prove them,{HR}And that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.