Ecclesiastes 3:19-21
1599 Geneva Bible
19 For the condition of the children of men, and the condition of beasts are even as one [a]condition unto them. As the one dieth, so dieth the other: for they have all one breath, and there is no excellency of man above the beast: for all is vanity.
20 All go to one place, and all was of the dust, and all shall return to the dust.
21 Who [b]knoweth whether the spirit of man ascend upward, and the spirit of the beast descend downward to the earth?
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- Ecclesiastes 3:19 Man is not able by his reason and judgment to put difference between man and beast, as touching those things whereunto both are subject: for the eye cannot judge any otherwise of a man being dead, than of a beast, which is dead: yet by the word of God and faith we easily know the diversity, as verse 21.
- Ecclesiastes 3:21 Meaning, that reason cannot comprehend that which faith believeth herein.
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