Ecclesiastes 3:19

For what happens to people also happens to animals a single event happens to them: just as someone dies, so does the other. In fact, they all breathe the same way, so that a human being has no superiority over an animal. All of this is pointless.

Psalm 49:12

But humanity cannot last, despite its conceit; it will pass away just like the animals.

2 Samuel 14:14

After all, even though we all die, and we're all like water being spilled on the ground that cannot be recovered, nevertheless God doesn't take away life, but carries out his plans so as not to cast away permanently from him those who are presently estranged.

Job 14:10-12

"But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be?

Psalm 39:5-6

Look, you have made my life span fit in your hand; It is nothing compared to yours. Surely every person at their best is a puff of wind. Interlude

Psalm 49:20

Humanity, despite its conceit, does not understand that it will perish, just like the animals. A song of Asaph.

Psalm 89:47-48

Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings!

Psalm 92:6-7

A stupid man doesn't know, and a fool can't comprehend this:

Psalm 104:29

When you withdraw your favor, they are disappointed; Take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise use their eyes, but the fool walks in darkness. I also perceived that the same outcome affects them all.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For neither the wise nor the fool will be long remembered, since in days to come everything will be forgotten. The wise man dies the same way as the fool, does he not?

Ecclesiastes 2:20-23

So I came to be in despair about everything I had accomplished on earth.

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Summary

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

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Bible References

That which

Ecclesiastes 2:16
For neither the wise nor the fool will be long remembered, since in days to come everything will be forgotten. The wise man dies the same way as the fool, does he not?
Psalm 49:12
But humanity cannot last, despite its conceit; it will pass away just like the animals.
Psalm 92:6
A stupid man doesn't know, and a fool can't comprehend this:

As the

2 Samuel 14:14
After all, even though we all die, and we're all like water being spilled on the ground that cannot be recovered, nevertheless God doesn't take away life, but carries out his plans so as not to cast away permanently from him those who are presently estranged.
Job 14:10
"But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be?
Psalm 104:29
When you withdraw your favor, they are disappointed; Take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.

For

Ecclesiastes 2:20
So I came to be in despair about everything I had accomplished on earth.
Psalm 39:5
Look, you have made my life span fit in your hand; It is nothing compared to yours. Surely every person at their best is a puff of wind. Interlude
Psalm 89:47
Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings!

General references

Ecclesiastes 1:2
"Utterly pointless," says the Teacher. "Absolutely pointless; everything is pointless."
Ecclesiastes 6:11
Because many words lead to pointlessness, how do people benefit from this? 12Who knows what is best for people in this life, every day of their pointless lives that they pass through like a shadow? Who informs people on earth what will come along after them?

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