Ecclesiastes 3:15-21

¹⁵What is that which hath been? already it is, and that which is to be hath already been, and God requireth that which is pursued.

¹⁶And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment — there is the wicked; and the place of righteousness — there is the wicked.

¹⁷I said in my heart, 'The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time is to every matter and for every work there.'

¹⁸I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves are beasts.

¹⁹For an event is to the sons of man, and an event is to the beasts, even one event is to them; as the death of this, so is the death of that; and one spirit is to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole is vanity.

²⁰The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.

²¹Who knoweth the spirit of the sons of man that is going up on high, and the spirit of the beast that is going down below to the earth?