3:19 For the fate of humans 1 and the fate of animals are the same:
As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath.
There is no advantage for humans over animals,
for both are fleeting.
3:20 Both go to the same place,
both come from the dust,
and to dust both return.
3:21 Who really knows if the human spirit 2 ascends upward,
and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?
1 tn Heb “of the sons of man.”
2 tn Heb “the spirit of the sons of man.”