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Ecclesiastes 3:17-19
1599 Geneva Bible
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.
Ecclesiastes 3:17-19
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 3:17-19
New International Version
17 I said to myself,
“God will bring into judgment(A)
both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
a time to judge every deed.”(B)
18 I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.(C) 19 Surely the fate of human beings(D) is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath[a]; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless.
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- Ecclesiastes 3:19 Or spirit
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