Ecclesiastes 3:19

New American Bible - revised edition

For the lot of mortals and the lot of beasts is the same lot: The one dies as well as the other. Both have the same life breath. Human beings have no advantage over beasts, but all is vanity.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We must indeed die; we are then like water that is poured out on the ground and cannot be gathered up. Yet, though God does not bring back to life, he does devise means so as not to banish anyone from him.

Psalm 104:29

When you hide your face, they panic. Take away their breath, they perish and return to the dust.

Psalm 49:12

Their tombs are their homes forever, their dwellings through all generations, “They named countries after themselves”

Psalm 49:13

—but man does not abide in splendor. He is like the beasts—they perish.

Psalm 49:20

But he will join the company of his fathers, never again to see the light.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a chase after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

yet when I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly, I learned that this also is a chase after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

Wise people have eyes in their heads, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I knew that the same lot befalls both.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

The wise person will have no more abiding remembrance than the fool; for in days to come both will have been forgotten. How is it that the wise person dies like the fool!

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, For that is the end of every mortal, and the living should take it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Human beings no more know their own time than fish taken in the fatal net or birds trapped in the snare; like these, mortals are caught when an evil time suddenly falls upon them. The Uncertain Future and the Sages.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Everything is the same for everybody: the same lot for the just and the wicked, for the good, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who offers sacrifice and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who takes an oath, so it is for the one who fears an oath.

Numbers 16:29

if these die an ordinary death, merely suffering the fate common to all humanity, the Lord has not sent me.