68 The beasts are better than they; for they can get under a covert, and help themselves. (WEB)
Baruch 6:68
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Baruch 6:53–55
53 For they can’t set up a king in a land or give rain to men. (WEB) 54 They can’t judge their own cause, or redress a wrong, being unable; for they are like crows between heaven and earth. (WEB) 55 For even when fire falls upon the house of gods of wood overlaid with gold or with… (WEB)
2 Esdras 7:65–67
65 Let the race of men lament and the animals of the field be glad. Let all who are born lament, but let the four-footed animals and the livestock rejoice. (WEB) 66 For it is far better with them than with us; for they don’t look forward to judgment, neither do they know… (WEB) 67 … (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 15:18–19
18 Yes, and they worship the creatures that are most hateful, for, being compared as to lack of sense, these are worse than all others; (WEB) 19 Neither, as seen beside other creatures, are they beautiful, so that one should desire them, but they have escaped both the pra… (WEB)
Job 37:7–9
7 He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work. 8 The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens. 9 The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
Baruch 6:35–37
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Baruch 6:41–43
41 If they shall see one mute who can’t speak, they bring him and ask him to call upon Bel, as though he were able to understand. (WEB) 42 Yet they can’t perceive this themselves, and forsake them; for they have no understanding. (WEB) 43 The women also with cords around them sit i… (WEB)
Psalms 73:4–6
4 They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed. 5 They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men. 6 Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.
2 Peter 2:11–13
11 Yet not even angels, though greater in strength and power, dare to bring such slanderous charges against them before the Lord. 12 These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do no…
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