Ecclesiastes 3:18-22

New Century Version

¹⁸ I decided that God leaves it the way it is to test people and to show them they are just like animals. ¹⁹ The same thing happens to animals and to people; they both have the same breath, so they both die. People are no better off than the animals, because everything is useless. ²⁰ Both end up the same way; both came from dust and both will go back to dust. ²¹ Who can be sure that the human spirit goes up to God and that the spirit of an animal goes down into the ground? ²² So I saw that the best thing people can do is to enjoy their work, because that is all they have. No one can help another person see what will happen in the future.