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Ecclesiastes 3:19-21
Common English Bible
Ecclesiastes 3:19-21
Common English Bible
19 because human beings and animals share the same fate. One dies just like the other—both have the same life-breath. Humans are no better off than animals because everything is pointless.
20 All go to the same place:
all are from the dust;
all return to the dust.
21 Who knows if a human being’s life-breath rises upward while an animal’s life-breath descends into the earth?
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