Ecclesiastes 3:19

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts; for all is vanity.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We must all die, we are like water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; but God will not take away the life of him who devises means not to keep his banished one an outcast.

Psalm 104:29

When thou hidest thy face, they are dismayed; when thou takest away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Psalm 49:12

Man cannot abide in his pomp, he is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm 49:13

This is the fate of those who have foolish confidence, the end of those who are pleased with their portion. Selah

Psalm 49:20

Man cannot abide in his pomp, he is like the beasts that perish.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise man has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness; and yet I perceived that one fate comes to all of them.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For of the wise man as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise man dies just like the fool!

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for this is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man does not know his time. Like fish which are taken in an evil net, and like birds which are caught in a snare, so the sons of men are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

since one fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As is the good man, so is the sinner; and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.

Numbers 16:29

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