I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.

我心里说，这乃为世人的缘故，是神要试验他们，使他们觉得自己不过像兽一样。

我心里说：“为世人的缘故，上帝考验他们，让他们看见自己不过像走兽一样。”

我心里说：“为世人的缘故，神考验他们，让他们看见自己不过像走兽一样。”

我又想：“至于世人，上帝试验他们，是要他们知道自己与兽类无异。

我自己心里说：“至于世人，神要试验他们，使他们看见自己与牲畜无异。

至于世人，我心里说：“神在考验他们，要让他们看见自己像兽类一样”；

我心裏說，這乃為世人的緣故，是神要試驗他們，使他們覺得自己不過像獸一樣。

我心裏說：「為世人的緣故，上帝考驗他們，讓他們看見自己不過像走獸一樣。」

我心裏說：「為世人的緣故，神考驗他們，讓他們看見自己不過像走獸一樣。」

我又想：「至於世人，上帝試驗他們，是要他們知道自己與獸類無異。

我自己心裡說：“至於世人，神要試驗他們，使他們看見自己與牲畜無異。

我心裏說：這是為了人類的緣故：是上帝要試驗他們，使他們看出自己不過像獸類一樣。

至於世人，我心裡說：「神在考驗他們，要讓他們看見自己像獸類一樣」；

言及世人、我心自謂、上帝欲試之、使知其與獸無異、

又思世人行事、上帝察之、欲人知異於禽獸者幾希。

我又自思曰、世事如是乃緣人之故、蓋天主欲以試人、使人知人與獸無異、

I also said to myself,“ As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.

I also said to myself,“ God tests human beings. He does this so they can see that in certain ways they are like animals.

I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.

I also thought about the human condition— how God proves to people that they are like animals.

I said to myself,“ This happens so that God may test the children of Adam and they may see for themselves that they are like animals.”

I said to myself regarding the sons of mankind,“ God is testing them in order for them to see that they are as animals, they to themselves.”

I said in my heart,“ Concerning the condition of the sons of men, God tests them, that they may see that they themselves are like animals.”

I said to myself,“ This happens concerning people, so that God may test them and they may see for themselves that they are like animals.”

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 also thought to myself,“ It is for the sake of people, so God can clearly show them that they are like animals.

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.

So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee.

And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment;

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 toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled.Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh.The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight; That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest.

But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,

Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd: And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.

Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?

God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.

But man being in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.

For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: