"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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Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
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.
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
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.
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
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:
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;
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;
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.
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.
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.
I said in my heart concerning the state of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.
I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves `are' beasts.