Ecclesiastes 3:18

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What does Ecclesiastes 3:18 mean?

Ecclesiastes 3:18 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Ecclesiastes 3:18

• Psalms 73:22

  So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

• Psalms 49:12

  Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

• Hebrews 9:27

  And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

• 2 Peter 2:12

  But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

• Genesis 3:17-19

  And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

• Romans 9:23

  And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

• 1 Peter 1:24

  For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

• Psalms 73:18-19

  Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

• Job 40:8

  Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

• Job 14:1-4

  Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

• Job 15:16

  How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

• Romans 3:4

  God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

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Context

• Ecclesiastes 3:17

  I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

• Ecclesiastes 3:18

  I 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.

• Ecclesiastes 3:19

  For 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; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

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