Ecclesiastes 3:18
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18 I said to myself with regard to humans that God is testing[a] them to show that they are but animals.(A)
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- 3.18 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 73:22
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22 I was stupid and ignorant;
I was like a brute beast toward you.(A)
Psalm 49:12
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12 Mortals cannot abide in their pomp;
they are like the animals that perish.(A)
2 Peter 2:12
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12 These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and as those creatures are destroyed,[a] they also will be destroyed,
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- 2.12 Gk in their destruction
Hebrews 9:27
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27 And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,(A)
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Genesis 3:17-19
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17 And to the man[a] he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
about which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
cursed is the ground because of you;
in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;(A)
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field.(B)
19 By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread
until you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
you are dust,
and to dust you shall return.”(C)
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- 3.17 Or to Adam
Romans 9:23
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23 and what if he has done so in order to make known the riches of his glory for the objects of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—
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1 Peter 1:24
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24 For
“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,(A)
Romans 3:4
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4 By no means! Although every human is a liar, let God be proved true, as it is written,
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- 3.4 Other ancient authorities read you may prevail
Psalm 90:5-12
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5 You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning;(A)
6 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.(B)
7 For we are consumed by your anger;
by your wrath we are overwhelmed.
8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your countenance.(C)
9 For all our days pass away under your wrath;
our years come to an end[a] like a sigh.(D)
10 The days of our life are seventy years
or perhaps eighty, if we are strong;
even then their span[b] is only toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.(E)
11 Who considers the power of your anger?
Your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.(F)
12 So teach us to count our days
that we may gain a wise heart.(G)
Psalm 73:18-19
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18 Truly you set them in slippery places;
you make them fall to ruin.(A)
19 How they are destroyed in a moment,
swept away utterly by terrors!(B)
Psalm 51:4
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4 Against you, you alone, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you are justified in your sentence
and blameless when you pass judgment.(A)
Psalm 49:19-20
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19 they[a] will go to the company of their ancestors,
who will never again see the light.(A)
20 Mortals cannot abide in their pomp;
they are like the animals that perish.(B)
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- 49.19 Cn: Heb you
Psalm 49:14
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14 Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
straight to the grave they descend,[a]
and their form shall waste away;
Sheol shall be their home.[b](A)
Job 40:8
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8 Will you even put me in the wrong?
Will you condemn me that you may be justified?(A)
Job 15:16
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16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
one who drinks iniquity like water!(A)
Job 14:1-4
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14 “A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,(A)
2 comes up like a flower and withers,
flees like a shadow and does not last.(B)
3 Do you fix your eyes on such a one?
Do you bring me into judgment with you?(C)
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
No one can.(D)
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