Ecclesiastes 3:19

Bible in Basic English 1965

Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.

Psalm 104:29

If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

Psalm 49:12

But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

Psalm 49:13

This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. Selah.

Psalm 49:20

Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.

Numbers 16:29

If these men have the common death of men, or if the natural fate of all men overtakes them, then the Lord has not sent me.