Ecclesiastes 3:18-20

EasyEnglish Bible

¹⁸I also thought, ‘God wants people to know that they are like animals. That is why he tests us. ¹⁹The same thing happens to humans as happens to animals. We all breathe for a time and then we die. Humans are no different to animals. Life has no purpose. ²⁰All living things finally go to the same place. We all come from the dust of the ground. And we all go back to the dust when we die.^[a]

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3:20 See Genesis 3:19.

Ecclesiastes 3:18-20

New International Version

¹⁸I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.^(A) ¹⁹Surely the fate of human beings^(B) is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath^[a]; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. ²⁰All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.^(C)