¹⁸ I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.^(A)

¹⁹ Surely the fate of human beings^(A) 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.