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Ecclesiastes 3:19

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For the fate of the children of Adam and the fate of animals is the same.  As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath. People have no advantage over animals since everything is futile.

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For, just like the fool, there is no lasting remembrance of the wise,  since in the days to come both will be forgotten. How is it that the wise person dies just like the fool?


The wise person has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also knew that one fate comes to them both.


We will certainly die  and be like water poured out on the ground, which can’t be recovered. But God would not take away a life; he would devise plans so that the one banished from him does not remain banished.


if these men die naturally as all people would, and suffer the fate of all, then the Lord has not sent me.


It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, since that is the end of all mankind, and the living should take it to heart.


Everything is the same for everyone:  There is one fate for the righteous and the wicked,  for the good and the bad,  for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As it is for the good, so also it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who takes an oath, so also for the one who fears an oath.


For certainly no one knows his time:  like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap,  so people are trapped in an evil time  as it suddenly falls on them.


I have seen all the things that are done under the sun and have found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.  ,


I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge,  madness and folly;  I learned that this too is a pursuit of the wind.





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