Ecclesiastes 3:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸I 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.

Ecclesiastes 3:18 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 73:22
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
Psalms 49:12
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Genesis 3:17-19
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; …
2 Peter 2:12
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;

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Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-22)

Solomon is still showing that every thing in this world, without piety and the fear of God, is vanity. Take away religion, and there is nothing valuable among men, nothing for the sake of which a wise man would think it worth while to live in this world. In these verses he shows that power (than which there is nothing men are more ambitious of) and life itself (than which there is nothing men are…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. estate--The estate of fallen man is so ordered (these wrongs are permitted), that God might “manifest,” that is, thereby prove them, and that they might themselves see their mortal frailty, like that of the beasts. sons of men--rather, “sons of Adam,” a phrase used for “fallen men.” The toleration of injustice until the judgment is designed to “manifest” men’s characters in their fallen state,…