18 I said [a]to myself regarding the sons of mankind, “God is testing them in order for them to see that they are as (A)animals, they to themselves.”

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  1. Ecclesiastes 3:18 Lit in my heart

18 I said to myself regarding the sons of men, “God is surely testing them in order for them to see that [by themselves, without God] they are [only] animals.”

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18 I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.(A)

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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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22 Then I was (A)stupid and ignorant;
I was like an (B)animal [a]before You.

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  1. Psalm 73:22 Lit with You

22 
Then I was senseless and ignorant;
I was like a beast before You.

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22 I was senseless(A) and ignorant;
    I was a brute beast(B) before you.

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

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12 But (A)man in his splendor will not endure;
He is like the animals that [a]perish.

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  1. Psalm 49:12 Lit are destroyed

12 
But man, with all his [self] honor and pomp, will not endure;
He is like the beasts that perish.

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12 People, despite their wealth, do not endure;(A)
    they are like the beasts that perish.(B)

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

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20 (A)Mankind in its splendor, yet without understanding,
Is (B)like the animals that [a]perish.

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  1. Psalm 49:20 Lit are destroyed

20 
A man [who is held] in honor,
Yet who lacks [spiritual] understanding and a teachable heart, is like the beasts that perish.

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20 People who have wealth but lack understanding(A)
    are like the beasts that perish.(B)

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20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

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12 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “(A)Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” 13 This testimony is true. For this reason (B)reprimand them (C)severely so that they may be (D)sound in the faith,

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12 One of them [Epimenides, a Cretan], a [a]prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” 13 This description is true. So rebuke them sharply so that they will be sound in the faith and free from doctrinal error,

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  1. Titus 1:12 Epimenides was a highly regarded sixth century b.c. poet and philosopher from Crete. His description of his own people had by this time become a proverb.

12 One of Crete’s own prophets(A) has said it: “Cretans(B) are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”[a] 13 This saying is true. Therefore rebuke(C) them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith(D)

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  1. Titus 1:12 From the Cretan philosopher Epimenides

12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

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12 But (A)these, like unreasoning animals, (B)born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, using abusive speech where they have no knowledge, will in [a]the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,

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  1. 2 Peter 2:12 Lit their destruction also

12 But these [false teachers], like unreasoning animals, [mere] creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed, reviling things they do not understand, will also perish in their own corruption [in their destroying they will be destroyed],

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12 But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish.(A)

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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;

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10 But (A)these people disparage all the things that they do not understand; and (B)all the things that they know by instinct, (C)like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.

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10 But these men sneer at anything which they do not understand; and whatever they do know by [mere] instinct, like unreasoning and irrational beasts—by these things they are destroyed.

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10 Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.(A)

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10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

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