19 For the fate of the children of Adam and the fate of animals is the same.(A) As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath. People have no advantage over animals since everything is futile.

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19 Surely the fate of human beings(A) 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:19 Or spirit