New Revised Standard Version
I said in my heart with regard to human beings that God is testing them to show that they are but animals.

Contemporary English Version
I know God is testing us to show us that we are merely animals.

New American Bible
I said in my heart: As for human beings, it is God’s way of testing them and of showing that they are in themselves like beasts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.

I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.

concerning

Genesis 3:17-19 And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. . . .

Job 14:1-4 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. . . .

Job 15:16 How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?

Psalm 49:14,19,20 They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help shall decay in hell from their glory. . . .

Psalm 73:18,19 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down. . . .

Psalm 90:5-12 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be. . . .

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:

1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

that God

Job 40:8 Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?

Psalm 51:4 To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged.

Romans 3:4 But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

Romans 9:23 That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he hath prepared unto glory?

and that

Psalm 73:22 And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.

2 Peter 2:12 But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption: