Ecclesiastes 3:18-21 I said in my heart concerning the issue of the sons of men, that God may test them and see that they by themselves are beasts.

LITV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁸ I said in my heart concerning the issue of the sons of men, that God may test them and see that they by themselves are beasts. ¹⁹ For that which happens to the sons of men, and that which happens to beasts, even one event is to them. As this one dies, so that one dies; yea, one breath is to all; so that there is to the man no advantage over the beast; for all is vanity. ²⁰ All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all return to the dust. ²¹ Who knows the spirit of the sons of man, whether it goes upward; and the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the earth?