Ecclesiastes 3:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?

Ecclesiastes 3:21 Cross References

Job 14:10

But man dieth, and wasteth away: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.

John 14:3

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Acts 1:25

to take the place in this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:8

we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

Deuteronomy 28:13

And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou shalt hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them;

Philippians 1:23

But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better: