Who knows that the spirit of the sons of man ascends upward and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?
But man dies and is powerless. Man expires—and where is he?
Then the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to Myself, so that where I am you may also be.
to take the position in this office as emissary, from which Judah turned aside to go to his own place.”
For we know that if the tent, our earthly home, is torn down, we have a building from God—a home not made with human hands, eternal in the heavens.
We are confident, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and at home with the Lord.
Adonai will make you the head and not the tail, and you will be only above and not below—if you listen to the mitzvot of Adonai your God that I am commanding you today, careful to do them,
I am torn between the two—having a desire to leave and be with Messiah, which is far better;