Who knows if the spirit of man ascends upward and the spirit of the animal descends downward to the earth?

The end of a matter is better than its beginning; Patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit (pride).

So then, I have seen the wicked buried, those who used to go in and out of the holy place [but did not thereby escape their doom], and they are [praised in spite of their evil and] soon forgotten in the city where they did such things. This too is futility (vanity, emptiness).

then the dust [out of which God made man’s body] will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.