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Ecclesiastes 3:19-21
International Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 3:19-21
International Standard Version
19 For what happens to people also happens to animals—a single event happens to them: just as someone dies, so does the other. In fact, they all breathe the same way, so that a human being has no superiority over an animal. All of this is pointless. 20 All of them go to one place: all of them originate from dust, and all of them return to dust.
21 Who knows whether[a] the spirit of human beings ascends, and whether[b] the spirit of animals descends to the earth?
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- Ecclesiastes 3:21 So LXX. The Heb. lacks whether
- Ecclesiastes 3:21 So LXX. The Heb. lacks whether
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