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Ecclesiastes 3:21
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19 aFor what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity.  
20 All go to one place: aall are from the dust, and all return to dust.  
21 aWho1 knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, which goes down to the earth?  
22 aSo I perceived that nothing is better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for bthat is his heritage. cFor who can bring him to see what will happen after him? 
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knoweth—Not doubt of the destination of man's spirit (Ecclesiastes 12:7); but "how few, by reason of the outward mortality to which man is as liable as the beast and which is the ground of the skeptic's argument, comprehend the wide difference between man and the beast" (Isaiah 53:1). The Hebrew expresses the difference strongly, "The spirit of man that ascends, it belongeth to on high; but the spirit of the beast that descends, it belongeth to below, even to the earth." Their destinations and proper element differ utterly [WEISS].




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