19 (A)For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:19 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)

12 Man in his pomp (A)will not remain;
    (B)he is like the beasts that perish.

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20 (A)Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

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20 So I (A)turned about and gave my heart up to despair (B)over all the toil of my labors under the sun, 21 because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. 22 What has a man from (C)all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? 23 For (D)all his days are full of sorrow, and his (E)work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.

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16 For of the wise as of the fool there is (A)no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. (B)How the wise dies just like the fool!

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14 (A)The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the (B)same event happens to all of them.

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29 When you (A)hide your face, they are (B)dismayed;
    when you (C)take away their breath, they die
    and (D)return to their dust.

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The stupid man cannot know;
    the fool cannot understand this:
that though (A)the wicked sprout like grass
    and all (B)evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever;

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47 (A)Remember (B)how short my (C)time is!
    For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
48 (D)What man can live and never (E)see death?
    Who can deliver his soul from the power of (F)Sheol? Selah

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Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
    and (A)my lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely (B)all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
    Surely a man (C)goes about as a shadow!
Surely for nothing[a] they are in turmoil;
    man (D)heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 39:6 Hebrew Surely as a breath

10 But a man dies and is laid low;
    man breathes his last, and (A)where is he?
11 (B)As waters fail from a lake
    and a river wastes away and dries up,
12 so a man lies down and rises not again;
    till (C)the heavens are no more he will not awake
    or be (D)roused out of his sleep.

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14 We must all die; we are (A)like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means (B)so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.

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