Ecclesiastes 3:19

Tree of Life Version

For the destiny of humankind and the destiny of animals are one and the same. As one dies, so dies the other. Both have the same breath—a human has no advantage over an animal—both are fleeting.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For we will all surely die and be like water spilt on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life but rather, He devises plans so that a banished person may not remain an outcast from Him.

Psalm 104:29

But when You hide Your face— they are dismayed. You take away their breath— they perish, and return to their dust.

Psalm 49:12

Their inward thought is: Their houses are eternal, their dwellings for generation after generation. They name their lands after themselves.

Psalm 49:13

But the pompous man will not endure— he is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm 49:20

He will still join his fathers’ company, who will never see the light.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the deeds done under the sun; and behold, all is meaningless and chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

So I applied my heart to know wisdom as well as to know madness and folly. I learned that this too was pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

A wise man has his eyes in his head, while the fool walks in the darkness. Yet, I also came to realize that the same destiny befalls them both.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For the wise man, together with the fool, is not remembered forever. For in the days to come both will be forgotten. Alas, the wise, just like the fool, must die!

Ecclesiastes 7:2

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

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Moreover, no man knows his time: like fish caught in a fatal net or birds caught in a snare, so people are trapped in a time of calamity, that falls upon them suddenly.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Everyone shares the same destiny: for the righteous and the wicked; for the good, the ritually clean and the defiled; for one who sacrifices and one who does not sacrifice; as the good person so the sinner; as the one who swears like the one who fears an oath.

Numbers 16:29

If every one of these men die a common death and experience what happens to all people, then Adonai has not sent me.