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."
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- Psalms 73:22
"So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 49:12
"Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish."
Read in chapter → - 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;"
Read in chapter → - Hebrews 9:27
"And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:"
Read in chapter → - Genesis 3:17
"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;"
Read in chapter → - 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:"
Read in chapter → - 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,"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 49:19
"He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 49:14
"Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling."
Read in chapter → - Job 40:8
"Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?"
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