Ecclesiastes 3:21 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²¹ Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the earth?

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?

Common English Bible

²¹ Who knows if a human being’s life-breath rises upward while an animal’s life-breath descends into the earth?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Who knows if the spirit of the sons of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?

Ecclesiastes 3:21 Cross References

Job 14:10

5 Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

4 And all things that are done, God will bring into judgment for every error, whether it be good or evil.

John 14:3

1 Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?

Acts 1:25

And they were all amazed, and wondered, saying: Behold, are not all these, that speak, Galileans?

2 Corinthians 5:1

0 For we must all be manifested before the judgement seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil.

2 Corinthians 5:8

7 If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away, behold all things are made new.

Deuteronomy 28:13

8 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.

Philippians 1:23

Fulfil ye my joy, that you may be of one mind, having the same charity, being of one accord, agreeing in sentiment.