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Ecclesiastes 3:18-20
Lexham English Bible

18 I said to myself concerning humans,[a] “God sifts[b] them in order to show[c] them that they are like beasts.” 19 For the fate of humans[d] and the fate of the beast is the same.[e] The death of the one is like the death of the other, for both are mortal.[f] Man has no advantage over the beast, for both are fleeting. 20 Both go to one place—both came from dust and both return to dust.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:18 Literally “the sons of the man”
  2. Ecclesiastes 3:18 Or “tests”
  3. Ecclesiastes 3:18 The MT reads active “to see,” but causative “to show” is reflected by LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Latin Vulgate
  4. Ecclesiastes 3:19 Literally “the sons of the man”
  5. Ecclesiastes 3:19 Literally “is one”
  6. Ecclesiastes 3:19 Literally “and one breath is for all”
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