Cross references

Ecclesiastes 3:18

I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”

Ecclesiastes 3:18 BSB

Ecclesiastes 3:18 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 73:22 (10 votes) and Psalm 49:12 (9 votes). 6 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Genesis 3 to 2 Peter 2.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 3:18 point to?

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  1. Psalm 73:2210 votes

    I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.

  2. But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.

  3. And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. …

  4. Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

  5. These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.

  6. What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—

  7. For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

  8. “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. …

  9. Job 15:163 votes

    how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

  10. Job 40:83 votes

    Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

  11. Psalm 51:43 votes
  12. Romans 3:43 votes

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 3:18?

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