Ecclesiastes 3:19-21

New International Reader's Version

¹⁹ Surely what happens to animals happens to people too. Death waits for people and animals alike. People die, just as animals do. All of them have the same breath. People don’t have any advantage over animals. Nothing has any meaning. ²⁰ People and animals go to the same place. All of them come from dust. And all of them return to dust. ²¹ Who can know whether the spirit of a person goes up? Who can tell whether the spirit of an animal goes down into the earth?”