Ecclesiastes 3:18-22

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁸ I said to myself, “This happens so that God may test the children of Adam and they may see for themselves that they are like animals.”^{(A) 19} For the fate of the children of Adam and the fate of animals is the same.^(B) As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath. People have no advantage over animals since everything is futile. ²⁰ All are going to the same place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.^{(C) 21} Who knows if the spirits of the children of Adam go upward and the spirits of animals go downward to the earth? ²² I have seen that there is nothing better than for a person to enjoy his activities^(D) because that is his reward. For who can enable him to see what will happen after he dies?^[a](E)