Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.

Cross References (11)

  • Psalms 49:12 (8)

    But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.

  • Psalms 49:20 (5)

    A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

  • Job 14:10–12 (4)

    But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

  • Ecclesiastes 2:20–23 (3)

    So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.

  • Psalms 89:47–48 (3)

    Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

  • Psalms 39:5–6 (3)

    You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists

  • Ecclesiastes 2:14 (3)

    The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes th

  • 2 Samuel 14:14 (2)

    For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away

  • Psalms 104:29 (2)

    When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:16 (2)

    For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days t

  • Psalms 92:6–7 (2)

    A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,