Ecclesiastes 3:21
ContextNET © | Who really knows if the human spirit 1 ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth? |
NIV © | Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?" |
NASB © | Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth? |
NLT © | For who can prove that the human spirit goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward into the earth? |
MSG © | Nobody knows for sure that the human spirit rises to heaven or that the animal spirit sinks into the earth. |
BBE © | Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth? |
NRSV © | Who knows whether the human spirit goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth? |
NKJV © | Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, which goes down to the earth? |
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NET © | Who really knows if the human spirit 1 ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth? |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “the spirit of the sons of man.” |