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19 For the outcome[a] for the children of Adam and the outcome for animals is the same. One dies just like the other. All have the same breath. Mankind has no advantage over animals, because everything is vapor. 20 All go to the same place. All were from the dust, and to the dust all return. 21 Who knows whether the spirit[b] of the man goes upward, and the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?

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  1. Ecclesiastes 3:19 Or destination
  2. Ecclesiastes 3:21 Or breath