Ecclesiastes 3:17-19
1599 Geneva Bible
17 I thought in mine heart, God will judge the just and the wicked: for time is [a]there for every purpose and for every work.
18 I considered in mine heart the state of the children of men, that God had [b]purged them: yet to see too, they are in themselves as beasts.
19 For the condition of the children of men, and the condition of beasts are even as one [c]condition unto them. As the one dieth, so dieth the other: for they have all one breath, and there is no excellency of man above the beast: for all is vanity.
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- Ecclesiastes 3:17 Meaning, with God, howsoever man neglect his duty.
- Ecclesiastes 3:18 And made them pure in their first creation.
- Ecclesiastes 3:19 Man is not able by his reason and judgment to put difference between man and beast, as touching those things whereunto both are subject: for the eye cannot judge any otherwise of a man being dead, than of a beast, which is dead: yet by the word of God and faith we easily know the diversity, as verse 21.
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