Ecclesiastes 3:17-21

¹⁷But then I thought to myself, “Ultimately God will judge both those who do right and those who do wrong, and every deed and action, at the appointed time.”

¹⁸I also thought to myself, “Regarding what happens to human beings—God proves to us that we're no better than animals.”

¹⁹For what happens to human beings is the same as what happens to animals—in the same way one dies, the other dies too. They all have the breath of life—so regarding any advantage human beings have over animals, there is none. Definitely this is very hard to understand!

²⁰They all end up in the same place—they all came from dust, and they all return to dust.

²¹Who really knows whether the breath of life of human beings goes up above, and the breath of life of animals goes down below to the earth?