Ecclesiastes 3:19

New King James Version

For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For we will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises means, so that His banished ones are not expelled from Him.

Psalm 104:29

You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Psalm 49:12

Nevertheless man, though in honor, does not remain; He is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm 49:13

This is the way of those who are foolish, And of their posterity who approve their sayings. Selah

Psalm 49:20

A man who is in honor, yet does not understand, Is like the beasts that perish.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is grasping for the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, But the fool walks in darkness. Yet I myself perceived That the same event happens to them all.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever, Since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come. And how does a wise man die? As the fool!

Ecclesiastes 7:2

Better to go to the house of mourning Than to go to the house of feasting, For that is the end of all men; And the living will take it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also does not know his time: Like fish taken in a cruel net, Like birds caught in a snare, So the sons of men are snared in an evil time, When it falls suddenly upon them.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

All things come alike to all: One event happens to the righteous and the wicked; To the good, the clean, and the unclean; To him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; He who takes an oath as he who fears an oath.

Numbers 16:29

If these men die naturally like all men, or if they are visited by the common fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.