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.

Just as no human being has control over the wind to restrain it, so also no human being has control over the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged during war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

At least the living know they will die, but the dead know nothing; they no longer have a reward, since memory about them has been forgotten.

then man's dust will go back to the earth, returning to what it was, and the spirit will return to the God who gave it.

Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,

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God will truly redeem me from the power of Sheol. He will surely receive me! Interlude

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades or allow your Holy One to experience decay.

We know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us to God together with you.

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LORD, after all this, can you hold yourself back? Can you keep silent and punish us so severely?