Ecclesiastes 3:19-21

New English Translation

¹⁹ For the fate of humans^[a] and the fate of animals are the same:
As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath.
There is no advantage for humans over animals,
for both are fleeting.
²⁰ Both go to the same place,
both come from the dust,
and to dust both return.
²¹ Who really knows if the human spirit^[b] ascends upward,
and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?”