20 All go to the same place. All came from the (A)dust and all return to the dust. 21 Who knows that the (B)spirit of the sons of mankind ascends upward and the spirit of the animal descends downward to the earth? 22 I have seen that (C)nothing is better than when a person is happy in his activities, for that is his [a]lot. For who will bring him to see (D)what will occur after him?

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:22 Or reward

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